I am finally having some success with growing rhubarb. For many years I would be lucky to get a few stalks during the growing season, until finally the plant disappeared completely and I gave up rhubarb. I moved into this garden in spring and I noticed a few leaves of the rhubarb sprouting up from a small crown. The plant did not do well so I moved it to another spot where, for a year it looked more dead than alive. I decided to enrich the soil in its original spot, with compost and sheep manure and returned the crown into a slightly raised mound. I have been rewarded for my effort and since late spring I have been pulling off good sized stalks to stew with apples. I have seen better looking clumps of rhubarb but for the moment I am happy that I am not forking out a fortune for rhubarbs from the market.
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