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I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry.
Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! -- |
Early appearances
wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Oh dear, I'd better go out and look at mine! Alan -- |
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wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Bill |
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Bill Grey wrote:
wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Only if you're going to dig it up and throw it away afterwards... -- Rusty |
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Bill Grey wrote:
Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. I don't think we were planning to. We forced it 2 years ago and then let it grow naturally last year to recover, thought maybe we'd give it another easy year. Or maybe we could force one and leave the other. Hmm. Decision time! |
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"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Only if you're going to dig it up and throw it away afterwards... -- Rusty I thought Rhubarb was fairly indestructible. I was given a root many years ago and in due course it was buried with building rubble, this it survived, then later I lit a graden fire roughtly on the spot where the Rhubarb was buried, this it also survived. The root originally came from Somerset in the mid 1800s by the grandfather of a pal of mine. The stalks were huge and the leaves were very big. If picked when quite young the rhubarb was very nice. Bill |
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"Bill Grey" wrote in message ... "Rusty Hinge" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Only if you're going to dig it up and throw it away afterwards... -- Rusty I thought Rhubarb was fairly indestructible. I was given a root many years ago and in due course it was buried with building rubble, this it survived, then later I lit a graden fire roughtly on the spot where the Rhubarb was buried, this it also survived. The root originally came from Somerset in the mid 1800s by the grandfather of a pal of mine. The stalks were huge and the leaves were very big. If picked when quite young the rhubarb was very nice. Bill I was under the same impression, I rescued one which was poking its nose up under a site hut on a building site. Had to get it out in bits and pieces, dumped them in a wheelbarrow, took them home, dumped them in the ground :-)) Had rhubarb ever since :-)) Perhaps it's my wife's skills, she's only been gardening for 51 years though ;-(( Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... |
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Bill Grey wrote:
"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: wrote in message ... I know someone did this already, but I've lost the thread, sorry. Popped along to the allotment yesterday and had a look, and the rhubarb is showing! Now this was showing on one plant a couple of weeks ago, just about, but now /both/ are well on their way! Nick is furious cos he wanted to split them! Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Only if you're going to dig it up and throw it away afterwards... -- Rusty I thought Rhubarb was fairly indestructible. I was given a root many years ago and in due course it was buried with building rubble, this it survived, then later I lit a graden fire roughtly on the spot where the Rhubarb was buried, this it also survived. The root originally came from Somerset in the mid 1800s by the grandfather of a pal of mine. The stalks were huge and the leaves were very big. If picked when quite young the rhubarb was very nice. Indestructible almost. but if you don't treat it well, it will sulk and go all weedy. -- Rusty |
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Rusty Hinge wrote:
Are you going to force it? At least put a bucket over it. Only if you're going to dig it up and throw it away afterwards... why? Forcing doesn't harm rhubarb. Depends on how long you force it. We forced both of ours a few years ago, and they still grew like evil giant flesh-eating plants from outer space last year. |
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