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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:18:02 +0000, June Hughes

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:25:23 GMT, Anne Jackson
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:30:26 GMT, Anne Jackson
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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?

I've never had recourse to either...

... Rusty recommended planting dead animals and carpets.
I thought that was for fig trees?

Rhubarb AFAIR.

Well as I think I've said in another post, I don't have any dead sheep, but
I will try the carpet, if I can remember!

Alan