how soon can I dig up Rhubarb?
 

I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!

Alan

how soon can I dig up Rhubarb?
 

On 29/11/2011 21:20, alan.holmes wrote:
I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!

Alan





Since the weather is still mild and autumnish, I would have thought
you'd get away with it. I did mine in late October last year and it was
fine so, provided your soil is not frozen or water-logged, you'll be okay.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

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Spider wrote:
I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!

Since the weather is still mild and autumnish, I would have thought
you'd get away with it. I did mine in late October last year and it was
fine so, provided your soil is not frozen or water-logged, you'll be okay.

Mine's only just died back! Think maybe we should try and do it at the
weekend

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On 29/11/2011 22:20, alan.holmes wrote:
I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!

Alan




I moved and split mine in June, the completely wrong time of year
according to gardening books. It has survived and done well since! So
maybe rhubarb isn't too fussy when it is moved provided it has
appropriate care in its new location.

--
David in Normandy.
To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the
subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
by a filter and not reach my inbox.

The main thing is do you have a dead piglet to bury underneath it? :-))

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:20:44 -0000, "alan.holmes"
wrote:


I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!


It is said that rhubarb can be improved by digging it up and leaving
it for the frost to get at it. IN that case it shouldn't matter when
you move it.
I've never tried it.

Pam in Bristol

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"Pam Moore" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:20:44 -0000, "alan.holmes"
wrote:


I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!


It is said that rhubarb can be improved by digging it up and leaving
it for the frost to get at it. IN that case it shouldn't matter when
you move it.
I've never tried it.

Let's have a bit of science here! When a rhubarb crown is lifted and split,
invariably roots are broken and fresh tissue is exposed. If the crown is
immediately replanted in cold, wet soil, this fresh exposed tissue will
usually rot and the crown will die. Leaving the split crown on the surface
will allow the damaged areas to 'callus over' so that on re-planting, no
rotting will occur. Frost is not a requirement, but at the time of year when
frosts occur, temperatures are normally low and the crown will not dry too
much or shrivel.

Phil

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On Nov 30, 12:27*pm, Granity
wrote:
alan.holmes;942792 Wrote: I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know

whether it is the best time to do this!

Alan

The main thing is do you have a dead piglet to bury underneath it? :-))


Would a neighbour do instead?

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"alan.holmes" wrote


I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!


Last winter a neighbour gave us a Rhubarb crown bare root with some soil on
it. I promptly forgot it and it was left on our allotment, I eventually
"found" it and planted it in March so it took the worst of last winters
weather laying on the surface. It's done well this year so it's tough stuff
is Rhubarb.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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On Nov 30, 4:15*pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"alan.holmes" *wrote

I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!

Last winter a neighbour gave us a Rhubarb crown bare root with some soil on
it. I promptly forgot it and it was left on our allotment, I eventually
"found" it and planted it in March so it took the worst of last winters
weather laying on the surface. It's done well this year so it's tough stuff
is Rhubarb.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

I'd move it when ever the ground it's going into is suitable for
planting.

I can't see why leaving it on the surface in even colder wet air would make it less susceptible to rot.

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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...
"alan.holmes" wrote


I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!


Last winter a neighbour gave us a Rhubarb crown bare root with some soil
on it. I promptly forgot it and it was left on our allotment, I eventually
"found" it and planted it in March so it took the worst of last winters
weather laying on the surface. It's done well this year so it's tough
stuff is Rhubarb.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK


Well as you have all been notified so many times, I am no gardener, but a
couple or so years ago a garden was sold off as a building plot and the site
cleared. A site hut was put up ready for construction of a bungalow. I
noticed some rhubarb 'just' poking it's head above the soil. April? May?
with the permission of the builder I 'hacked it' out of the ground, 'dumped
it' into a wheelbarrow for 'her outdoors' to plant. Now whether it is
because she has green fingers and over 50 years of gardening experience or
what I don't know, but we have had some superb Rhubarb Crumbles.

With what LITTLE gardening experience I do have, I would have thought when a
plant is 'just' started to grow, it is NOT the right time to transplant,
therefore, in answer to the OP's question ...........................
anytime :-))

Go for it :-)

Mike

--

....................................

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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"alan.holmes" wrote in message ...


I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know
whether it is the best time to do this!


Last December I used a fork and lifted all my rhubarb on the allotment.
There were 7 plants, all over 5 years old and each plant was split into 3.
I immediately replanted 7 plants and put the other 14 pieces into 4 litre
polly bags with garden soil and popped them in the greenhouse. Found new
homes on other allotments. No casualties that I am aware of. We're not far
from Dartmoor, at 500' elevation and East facing - so we get some severe
weather here. Here's a good article:-
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_...aa_rhubarb.asp

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Granity wrote:
I have some I would like to transfer to another place, but I don't know

whether it is the best time to do this!

Alan
The main thing is do you have a dead piglet to bury underneath it? :-))

That's where I'm going wrong - I thought it was meant to be fox!