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from "Alan Holmes" contains these words:


"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message
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There's a large and worthwhile difference between just bunging rhubarb
in soil, and planting it on top of a deep hole filled with old leather
shoes, wooly jumpers, weeds and manure. The stalks on deep-fed plants
are longer, more prolific, tender and pink, and taste better.

I wish you had said that _before_ I planted mine!

I found that out after I dug up and transplanted a very old rhubarb
patch, which transformed it. You could start saving bones, shoes,
woolly jumpers etc now, and replant your rhubarb next autumn.

Janet.