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Blues Ma wrote:

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For the first time in 30 years of trying, i seem to have found a critter
safe spot to grow rhubarb.
Now? -?? i need to know the rules.
Does it just want to grow and become established the first year ?
Should some stalks be cut ?
The plants have been in the ground for three weeks and are over a foot
high with three or
four stalks each.??? (they shipped as bare root, dead looking clumps)

Thanks for any good advice on helping them thrive.

Dorothy


Critters don't eat rhubarb. We have a commercial crop of it (well, it
seems like it -- 60 hills or so) that aren't fenced. Our cattle, horses,
moose, coyotes and wolves don't eat it. What critters are you worried
about?

The secret to happy rhubarb is to dump lots of manure or compost on
it every fall. Probably every spring, too. But it grows so well up here
in Alaska that we ignore it, hoping that it'll die back some, and it
doesn't.

You aren't supposed to pull any stems for the first year. Ha. Unless your
rhubarb is having trouble, I'd pull a few. Do you need recipes? I found
one for a rhubarb sauce on arugula salad the other day that sounds pretty
good.

Jan, 59o N. Latitude