"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:30:26 GMT, Anne Jackson
wrote:

The message from mewthree contains these words:
La Puce wrote:
On 9 Mar, 14:32, mewthree wrote:
never said anything about a pot. the crown came in a small bag of
what
looks like compost so i dug a hole in the garden and put in the
compost
and put the crown in that.

When you said 'compost' I thought ... But it's great. Don't forget to
feed it and good luck. Made me hungry ;o)

what is best to feed it with, since i didn't prepare the ground with
manure?

I've never had to feed rhubarb in my life, and I've been gardening (woman
and child) for over 60 years!

I never harvest rhubarb after the end of May, and what growth it makes
after that will, eventually, rot down...this feeds the plant.

Every time I've moved a rhubarb patch (and I try do that every five years
or so), I find that the ground is much improved, compared to what it was
when the rhubarb was planted initially.

Short term, for this year only, since you didn't do any initial
preparation,
I'd throw some general purpose fertiliser at it... it all depends what
your
soil was like to start with, really.

What about the much recommended dead sheep and old carpet?

What about dead sheep and old carpet?

We don't have too many dead sheep here in Berkshire, but I do have some old
carpet to try to help keep the weeds down.

Alan