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Rhubarb Leaves are Poisonous

NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

I break off the laves and leave them to wither on the soil

? Do they then loose their poisonous oxalic acid when they enter the soil

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    why? were you planning on digging them up and eating them later?

    Devon.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    NewBoy, the toxins will be broken down as the leaf rots.  it's perfectly safe to put rhubarb leaves on your compost heap, and to use the resulting compost for edible crops.  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I think newboy means will they contaminate the soil Hosta image

    It won't be absorbed by another plant



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    They make great slug traps too.  When I picked ours I would cut the leaves off there and then and leave them on the ground and the next morning find lots of slugs hiding there and thus easy to remove and squish.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Sorry image

    Devon.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Hostafan1 says:

    Sorry image

    See original post
    You knew that didn't you image


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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