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Raid jumble sales and buy up bags of old leather shoes and old woollies
afterwards. Get bones from the butcher - he'll usually give them

They sound hungry - the previous allotmenteer (?) planted them parallel to a
15 foot wide mature compost heap.

They will grow if you don't feed them, but if you really pamper them
they repay you a hundred-fold.

The leather, bones and wool provide slow-release phosphates and
nitrogen. Then you only need bung on some well-rotted manure every year
or so as your rhubarb patch becomes a hazard to aviation.

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Yes, quite a lot of info, I didn't realise there was poison in the leaves.

Oxalic acid. Boil the leaves ant the resulting juice is very good for
killing greenfly, and for getting iron stains out of wood.

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Raid jumble sales and buy up bags of old leather shoes and old woollies
afterwards. Get bones from the butcher - he'll usually give them

They sound hungry - the previous allotmenteer (?) planted them parallel to a
15 foot wide mature compost heap.

They will grow if you don't feed them, but if you really pamper them
they repay you a hundred-fold.

The leather, bones and wool provide slow-release phosphates and
nitrogen. Then you only need bung on some well-rotted manure every year
or so as your rhubarb patch becomes a hazard to aviation.

--
Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:14:48 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

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Raid jumble sales and buy up bags of old leather shoes and old woollies
afterwards. Get bones from the butcher - he'll usually give them

They sound hungry - the previous allotmenteer (?) planted them parallel to a
15 foot wide mature compost heap.

They will grow if you don't feed them, but if you really pamper them
they repay you a hundred-fold.

The leather, bones and wool provide slow-release phosphates and
nitrogen. Then you only need bung on some well-rotted manure every year
or so as your rhubarb patch becomes a hazard to aviation.

and something to encourage the police, when they are digging your
garden free, whilst looking for your mother-in-law.
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Martin

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: How late can rhubarb be planted and what varieties would urglers
recommend?
: I have room for only one crown.
:
: I would say that by February you're pushing it.
:
: Varieties? No idea what's available and I couldn't name you one. I do
: know that most of the rhubarb I've grown was allegedly a 'Champagne' of
: some ilk.
:
: Rhubarb takes well to being grown in pots., and the best pots for the
: job are those 20 gallon-ish drums with a wide mouth.
:
: You can get drums (but not always wide-mouthed ones) from fire stations.
: They come with a harmless foaming agent in.)
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Many thanks for the info Rusty.

K