Dividing Rhubarb: Tips For Splitting & Planting this Great Fruit Guild Perennial!
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2022
- Now is the time to divide your rhubarb! Rhubarb can get VERY large and benefits from being divided every few years. Bonus: you can share the divisions with friends and neighbors or make more patches of rhubarb around your garden!
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I came across this on an organic search for rhubarb videos (and I don't think RUclips has access to my contacts). First time the algorithm has suggested a video by a friend! Miriam (8) demanded that I leave a comment to let you know.
Ruthless! Thanks for the tips.
This will be the year that I divide mine. Thanks for the video. I feel more confident in dividing it now.
I grow rhubarb in the heat of Japan and it has been a struggle to keep it alive though our tropical summers. I am a little worried about splitting my beautiful survivors, (three out of dozens of attempts), but I guess I will have to do so in a couple more years as the crowns start to crowd each other.
Thank you for this video, it told me all that I needed to know about splitting the crowns.
This was hugely helpful. When we moved here, we inherited a rhubarb plant that was on the edge of the vegetable garden. That was in 1976. This video made me aware that I could divide rhubarb. I don't know if I even like the taste of it, but now I will be able to try it. I divided that one plant and made thirteen new plants that I used in various places. I planted some around a well head to make mowing easier and I planted a bunch around a six foot stump that will be a persimmon, mulberry, fig and bush cherry guild. I'm using it mainly as a filler or ground cover between the larger plants. I have it, along with some hosta, mint, chamomile and lemon balm. It is in the back yard and in the middle of lawn like an island. I originally made this area a guild because I didn't want to work too hard with a mower/weed whacker around the stump. The rhubarb has taken off and grown just as you said it would. I wasn't sure if I should pull any stalks during its first year, so I just let it grow, but next year, I will have tons to try. I love free plants. From just a few plants, I have thousands of hosta. I use them to border between garden and lawn. The mower can go beside/under the hosta and it creates a nice clean edging. I keep starting new beds, so there is always a need for hosta edging and rhubarb filler! Thank you for this!
I'm betting you will love the taste. It's unique - once you taste it you will recognize it anywhere. Just be sure you use enough sugar! I had two grandmothers & one always made the most delicious Rhubarb pies. Then one day my other grandmother asked me if I wanted a piece of rhubarb pie she had made. Of course I said yes. If she used any sugar at all, it was woefully inadequite. Super sour!
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Cant wait for for the snow to melt here in NH. I think I need to do some dividing of my rhubarb. Thank you!
Yes! I had no idea it was possible, or that easy. Thank you so much.
We just started some seeds of this to add in our permaculture orchard.
Brilliant 🤩
Learnt a lot as usual.
I literally just received my rhubarb plant yesterday. It looks like it is coming out of dormancy.
Looking forward.
Great video as always, thank you Angela!!
Thank you! Awesome video ❤
I am growing this in SoCal, overwintered it in a fridge and brought it out last week. The leaves are growing back!
Very helpful info
Excellent video. Subbed.
I've had Rhubarb in a large cedar pot. I don't think it has been too happy in there. It's time to divide and replant into the ground. Thanks for the reminder and the instructions!
In my experience it definitely does not like its roots constricted
Nic thk u
Making me crave strawberry ruebarb pies!
Helps keep the deer away from your fruit trees too!
Very timely, I have one I want to divide and wasn't sure if I needed to dig the whole thing up or not. Now I know.
Strangely I've had zero luck with Victoria but Crimson seems to be easy. Maybe it's just chance, I don't know.
Crimson is a good one!
Thank you so much for the video! I want to divide mine and share with neighbors but I thought the only way was to dig the whole plant out! This is so much easier. Question, can I harvest the big plant this year if I take a couple of bulbs from it?
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Nice one. In my neck of the woods (South Island of New Zealand) the leaves as mulch thing didn't work so well - they attracted lots of slugs. I compost them these days
Ah, slugs!! They do love to hide under any big leaves. Good slug traps! Put the leaves out then flip them in the morning and feed any slugs you find to the ducks or squish.
Mental note - get ducks 😁
I thought the leaves were poisonous. Are they ok in compost?
@@delfine7163 they're fine in the (mine, at least) compost. They fully decompose. Even if they didn't, so long as you don't eat them they are fine to use back on the garden - as mulch directly even.
How close to a fruit tree can you plant rhubarb in a guild ? Many thanks for your wonderful content as always.
If i stick a stauk in water, will it grow roots, like a tomato stem?
No, you need some root crown or it won’t grow.
Do you know if it will grow in shade?
Not full shade but it will in the partial shade under a fruit tree canopy
Where's the best place to get a good start? I want to grow it again. Live in your area. Can't find any.
I will have some in the farm stand end of the month and portland nursery sells them…usually in late Feb-easy April
*early April
One Green World has some as well out on Foster Rd in SE
I thought rhubarb leaves were toxic and you shouldn’t put them in your compost ??? I’m pretty sure you can’t feed them to cows and horses.