Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

On Aug 31, 10:55*pm, NT wrote:
Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

No. You need to buy/beg a "crown" (root.) A month or so on is the
time to plant.
Buy or get a piece off someone who has rhubarb.

On Sep 1, 8:15*am, harry wrote:
On Aug 31, 10:55*pm, NT wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

No. You need to buy/beg a "crown" (root.) * *A month or so on is the
time to plant.
Buy or get a piece off someone who has rhubarb.

No, but they are good cooked and served with custard

Dave Hill wrote in news:c27055a1-b736-419a-
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No, but they are good cooked and served with custard


Slurp. Never get fed up of that.

Baz

On 01/09/2011 10:10, Dave Hill wrote:
On Sep 1, 8:15 am, wrote:
On Aug 31, 10:55 pm, wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

No. You need to buy/beg a "crown" (root.) A month or so on is the
time to plant.
Buy or get a piece off someone who has rhubarb.

No, but they are good cooked and served with custard

I put manure on mine. ;-) (Think I've got that old joke backwards)

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On 01/09/2011 10:10, Dave Hill wrote:
On Sep 1, 8:15 am, wrote:
On Aug 31, 10:55 pm, wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

No. You need to buy/beg a "crown" (root.) A month or so on is the
time to plant.
Buy or get a piece off someone who has rhubarb.

No, but they are good cooked and served with custard

I put manure on mine. ;-) (Think I've got that old joke backwards)

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Rhubarb is always sweeter if pulled late in the day after the sun has been
on it all day.

Mike

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No. There are no buds or nodes in a rhubarb stalk, so nothing to start growing. The stalks don't even have the right kind of cells for propagation by tissue culture. This is what google should have found for you: http://www.rhubarbinfo.com/propagating

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT), NT
wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT


If there was a really stumpy bit of crown on it maybe ...
See if they sell plants - Morrisons do lots of plants/bulbs etc
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On Sep 1, 7:17*pm, mogga wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT), NT
wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT

If there was a really stumpy bit of crown on it maybe ...
See if they sell plants - Morrisons do lots of plants/bulbs etc
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thanks everyone


NT

On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:17:14 +0100, mogga
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT), NT
wrote:

Can rhubarb be grown from supermarket rhubarb stalks? google isnt
helping.

NT


If there was a really stumpy bit of crown on it maybe ...
See if they sell plants - Morrisons do lots of plants/bulbs etc

Too early. But when buying, be aware that sometimes a pot with what
looks like a well-developed plant may turn out to be two or three much
younger roots. I bought one from the greengrocer's to fill a gap last
year, and found I'd got three: all quite healthy, though small, but I
really only wanted one. For some reason I had been suspicious, but the
kid behind the counter clearly had no idea what I was talking about,
so I took the pot anyway. It didn't matter to me, but if you're
starting from scratch, it would be a nuisance.

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Mike.