"mike. buckley" wrote in message
k...
Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

Based in Solihull if anybody knows anywhere local.
Got ours from Marshalls. Ignored advice and picked loads in the first year
with no obvious detriment to the monster plants that developed through the
summer. Already picking again this year from one plant (forced) with two
others left to develop normally.

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Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum).

Don't harvest from rhubarb until it is properly established (so, no
harvesting in the first year you plant it). A newly planted rhubarb only
grows three or four stalks in the first year, and if you cut them off
you're depriving the root of food, so next year's crop will be even
sparser.

Jsnet

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from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum).

Don't harvest from rhubarb until it is properly established (so, no
harvesting in the first year you plant it). A newly planted rhubarb only
grows three or four stalks in the first year, and if you cut them off
you're depriving the root of food, so next year's crop will be even
sparser.

Jsnet

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from "mike. buckley" contains these
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Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

--
Rusty

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

In message , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes
The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

In message , AlisonAPg
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Garden Centre at Knowle (the one on the way to Chadwick End) (Wyndley???) had
some a month or so ago. Notcutts have had it in the past. I'm sure some seed
catalogues also sell roots too.


Went to Notcutts last night and saw the plants, most seemed poor or even
damaged in some way - so I bought some seed instead. Notcutts might have
a good range of stuff, but some of it isn't very well looked after. A
wander round B&Q was cut short by the deluge we had at about 6ish!

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

In article , mike.
buckley writes
In message , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes
The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

Rhubarb contains oxalic acid which combines with calcium to produce
insoluble calcium oxalate crystalise which cause inflammation of the
joints.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

--
Rusty

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

In message , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes
The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

In message , AlisonAPg
writes
Garden Centre at Knowle (the one on the way to Chadwick End) (Wyndley???) had
some a month or so ago. Notcutts have had it in the past. I'm sure some seed
catalogues also sell roots too.


Went to Notcutts last night and saw the plants, most seemed poor or even
damaged in some way - so I bought some seed instead. Notcutts might have
a good range of stuff, but some of it isn't very well looked after. A
wander round B&Q was cut short by the deluge we had at about 6ish!

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
BONY#38

In article , mike.
buckley writes
In message , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes
The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

Anybody know where I can get some online? Ideally I'd like a plant I can
harvest from this year (wine making, yum). A google hasn't brought
anything up apart from a few places doing seeds.

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

Rhubarb contains oxalic acid which combines with calcium to produce
insoluble calcium oxalate crystalise which cause inflammation of the
joints.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

It forms granules of some compound - probably an oxalate - in the joints
and it is *VERY* painful.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from "mike. buckley" contains these
words:

You should never pull any sticks in the first year. Also, never give
rhubarb wine to anyone with arthritis, rheumatism, etc.

Not heard about the wine thing - why not?

It forms granules of some compound - probably an oxalate - in the joints
and it is *VERY* painful.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/