Any tips for handling rhubard crowns? Should I prepare the ground in any
special way before planting etc?

Thanks,
Paul DS.

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Plenty of well rotted manure and/or compost. Bit late now to be planting
crowns or are they in pots?

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Any tips for handling rhubard crowns? Should I prepare the ground in any
special way before planting etc?

Dig a BIG WIDE hole for each crown and fill it with well rotted muck
and compost-heap contents, plant the crown in it and water in well. Each
year, mulch well with more muck. It's a hungry root, supporting huge
annual growth above ground, so you can't overfeed rhubarb. The taste and
tenderness difference between well-fed rhubarb and unfed rhubarb is well
worth the effort.

Janet.