How to Grow Rhubarb - Complete Growing Guide
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2016
- In this episode the topic of this complete growing guide is rhubarb.
Rhubarb is delicious and very nutritious. Rich in vitamins and minerals it is a wonderful plant to have. It also is a perennial which is even better! Plant it once and forget it. We will be talking about how to row it when it comes to fertilizing, sunlight, soil type, when to harvest, what to harvest, how to get it ready for winter, and how to pull it out of dormancy in the spring.
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Hi Matt, just watched your rhubarb video. I grew up in North Dakota and the temperatures would get down to -40 below zero, yet rhubarb was a common plant on many farmsteads and home gardens. Also in regard to green stem rhubarb being posionous I disagree. When I was kid that was all we had. Only difference between the green and red rhubarb was that the green took more sugar when making jams, sauces, pies and cakes.
I was just going to comment on this as well
Thank you for the info.
Luke,
we love our rhubarb here in Canada. I've got root transplants that date back from a Saskatchewan farm over 100 years. it gets as low as -40C to as high as +40C and the rhubarb thrives in full sun and some new top soil. I don't fertilize at all and my 2 year old transplants (5 plants) yielded over 70 cups of chopped rhubarb! biggest point I learned is never harvest more than 1/3 of the plant at a time.
Can I move a small established patch now to a more suitable spot
We have Victoria rhubarbs as well. It's a family heirloom. They've been in my mom's family since the late 19th century. We propagate them through root cuttings. They grow absolutely huge. Our record is 1.8 kg (4 lbs) for one stalk. :)
I just want to point out that the color tip of what to eat "red eat, not red don't eat" is specific to your variety. I'm sure you know that but for those reading- there are lots of varieties that aren't all red. The most common variety in my area of Upstate NY is only red at the bottom and mostly green. You know it's ripe by the length of stalk. Anything over 12" is ready to harvest. Anyway- just wanted to note that in case folks watching this have a non solid red variety like I do. (I do wish mine was solid red- it's so pretty. )
I agree - red or green depends on the variety, not on ripeness. Rhubarb does not "ripen" per se, you just wait for the stalks to get to about 10-12 inches long, and that has everything to do with keeping the plant healthy, not with avoiding some stage of growth that may be dangerous to eat; the stalks are not dangerous to eat. Rhubarb can be picked and eaten throughout spring and summer, although some recommend not picking after the end of June to ensure the plant itself stays healthy.
This video is full of wrong information. Rhubarbs are not drought tolerant at all! If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you will HAVE to provide them with sufficient shade and give them a lot of water every single day in the summer. Otherwise, they will all die. This guy is lucky cause he has rain in the summer. But that's just luck. Not everyone is as lucky as him! Also, oxalic acid is not a poison. But you will get kidney stone very easily if you eat too much. That's because of calcium oxalate. BTW, spinach also has a lot of oxalic acid in it. I have a variety that is almost totally green and it is completely safe to eat. The redness has something to do with tartness. His information is again WRONG! Just by looking at his lawn, you will see that he can never be self-sustainable. If you want to be self-sustainable, you have to let everything grow freely in order to accumulate organic. He relies on external input in order to grow his vegetables. SAD!
Preppy Pink Crocodile, thanks for this tip. His comment did make me nervous since I've been using non-red rhubarb for 2 years. Ours must be a different variety. (I inherited it in my yard when I bought my house.)
@@ArthurHau they are drought tolerant LOL. You sound angry lol
I bought mine from a nursery and kept waiting for it to get red, well it has been 4 years and still green. I call the type was Victoria...not sure though since it is green. I am in California so it seems to like water in the summer. I did give it a lot of mulch with rabbit fertilizer, haha it likes that. I was under the impression that it is not drought tolerant but then we do have very dry summers here. I am going to look up some recipes but not sure since it is green lol. I do enjoy migardner even so. Thanks all!
I live in northern Ontario, Canada. Our rhubarb patch has been around for 50+ years and it gets very cold during the winters. I came here hoping to learn more about the flower stalks and why it's important to pull them out. I've been told to pull them as as soon as they show, my whole life but my parents never explained why. This year I decided to let one of the flower stalks grow in order to collect some seeds. Definitely heirloom seeds. The patch has been growing and expanding for over 50 years....oh, and never been fertilised but always gorgeous. So, as far as not being cold tolerant, you're wrong. Also, it doesn't need fertilisers. Ours have never been fertilised but manages to grow huge. Mind you, our lot sits on some pretty nice soil. Not a 'complete growing guide', as your suggests.
Btw, I wanted to add. There are varieties of rhubarb that have only green stems so you telling people not to eat the green stems is also wrong...in some instances.
We grow rhubarb in Canada. During the winter it can go down to -40. Because of the snow cover the rhubarb survives the winter and comes up in the spring.
Yeah I grow rhubard in Canada (Quebec) saguenay and we have temperature going down almost -40 and we grow rhubarb just fine even in pots.
Sheila Behan yeah a lot of people grow it in Alaska and it regularly gets down to -40 here as well.
Same in Saskatchewan,0 we sometimes get a week of -40 and they come back. As do the raspberries and asparagus.
Same in Alberta, -35 with no snow cover and always the first after the crocuses to break ground.
@@TailithSky I feel like the Canadians are taking C and Americans talking F
No questions left, you did such a great job! Thank You very much. Take good care of you and yours
Rhubarb grows well in Alaska. Just cover the beds with deep dry mulch (straw), in late fall.
Searched for a good video about growing rhubarb and found yours. Thank you Luke, I learned a lot!! My mom and I are growing rhubarb and it's coming along but we have not been fertilizing so thanks for the reminder to do that. My dad was the gardener but he passed away so we are trying to keep all his work going :) and we love straw rhubarb pie. Thanks again!!!!
Great video's! The rhubarb leaves can actually be used as mite control in Beehives if you dry them and make up a paste and place them on top of the frames.
We're growing it from both bare roots and from small plants purchased at local store. (Victoria) I've very excited about this. Rhubarb grows very well in this part of PA. Thanks for the vid
Hi! Great video on growing rhubarb! I always appreciate extra tips and find your videos to be accurate and very thorough. I wanted to point out to you that you are talking about fertilizing the plants with nitrogen in Spring and phosphorous in Fall. At 4:25 ish you say, "blood meal" for phosphorous and that probably was an accident, because "blood meal" is a nitrogen-rich fertilizer while "bone meal" is for phosphorous. Hope that helps! Garden on!
Thank you for the clarification. I was a little confused☺️
Thank you. I was adding notes to my note app. I just went & bought a Victoria Rhubarb.
A very big help to me since I bought Victoria seeds from you and growing for 1st time. My seedlings are looking really great and almost ready to transplant outdoors. Thanks
Grew up with rhubarb in my mom's garden and we loved eating it with sugar. I've just put my first garden in this year (I'm in Australia so its spring here) and if course I've had to plant rhubarb. I've planted 3 crowns but also started some from seed which hasn't sprouted yet. I will go watch your planting guide now and make sure I did it right
Thanks for the info. I plant seeds that I've saved from my late seed setting plants both Spring & Fall. Growing them in 4" pots (deep ones work best) for 6 months..
I live in northern Minnesota, where we can get 15 feet or more of snow, usually more, each winter. It's normal for our temperature to go down into the 38 degree below zero or lower, and with wind chills into the 60 degree below mark. What we do here in the fall, is we mow all the rhubarb down, and just leave it alone. We do not put mulch over it, and we do not fertilize it ever. If we see the leaves starting to wilt, then we give it some water and that's it. My rhubarb has been coming up every year for 30+ years. My rhubarb is red from bottom to top, and is more sweet than sour, and was a transplant from my Aunt's huge rhubarb patch. We eat rhubarb cake every single week during the summer, and we never get tired of it. Sometimes, just letting nature take care of your rhubarb is the best thing to do.
Thanks, we are planting my wife's great great grandmothers rhubarb in the spring. She got it going in a pot. There was only a small sliver of it left alive when she found it at the old farm, but we will be planting it at our farm this spring. I want to get it going into a huge patch by dividing it up once it gets going good. Get some seeds from it too.
Very good information, Luke. I appreciate the fall fertilizing (phosphorous). We only have two rhubarb plants in the container and we are considering resituating them.
Another great video! 👏 Thank you for taking your time in making these videos, I have learned a ton! -Trish
Thanks Trish! We know some are less visually appealing than others, but we focus on the information above all things!
We grow rhubarb in southern Finland, and the winters get really cold here. We have no problems with the root, even after a really cold winter. We also can eat the stems that go from red to green, no sickness or problems. Every stem on our rhubarb has green and it's okay to eat.
This season will be my first attempt at growing rhubarb and I am starting from seeds I purchased from MIgardener online. I will keep you posted on the progress..
Luke,
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I'm a huge fan of your informative videos!
I love this series Luke!!
Thank you James!
I've always wondered if you two knew about each other.
Hey Luke, so glad you did this guide...I was planning on putting crowns in next spring. I have question about spacing looks like yours are 2 feet apart, I read to space 4 feet apart. I know you prefer to plant more intensively, what do you recommend for spacing? I am also planning on blueberries next year, hope you have a guide for that if not good idea for a future episode!
I’m gonna give rhubarb a shot in 2021! Shoutout from Tacoma, WA! Born and raised in Michigan though! 🖐
Thanks for sharing the video cheers :)
Thank you for these guides! I was so glad to find your channel. I wanted info from someone in a similar area to mine (Indiana). I inherited a rhubarb plant when we bought this house this year. I had a red variety at my old house. This one though is apparently a green variety. It never got red. I'm thankful for some of the comments that mentioned stalk length so I know when to cut them next year. This year I was waiting for them to get red (since I didn't even know they came in a green variety!) so I never cut from them before they bolted. When should you stop cutting from them? My neighbor and step mom were both still cutting from theirs in July, but other places I've read to stop by the end of June or even whenever they start to bolt. What is your practice typically?
Good information, thanks.
Side note: try strawberry-rhubarb crisp if you haven't already. Sooooo good. My grandmother, in Minnesota, would always make pie or the mix jam/preserves. My aunt, not ant, from Minnesota was the one who first prepared the strussle covered glory that is S.R. Crisp. Delicious.
Yum! Yes I've made a crisp. & Jam & made a syrup of strawberry rhubarb..
Great series🌱
I like your show. I live in Great Falls Montana and we do get 30 below someyear's. last summer I had the biggest leaves I've ever seen in rhubarb. I did not plant them, they were here before we moved in 3 years ago and we discovered them behind the shed. 3 bunches of them and they grew huge. I noticed the middle bunch are very small, I guess I'm fertilizing. it just turn summer here June 20th, They come back in the Spring.
perfect timing for me! thanks!
So glad it helped Anne!
I just watched seven videos here on youtube about growing and eating rhubarb. I also just harvested and ate a large amount from my garden. Most of it was pretty green. On this video around the seven minute mark he said the green ones will make you sick. It was yummy and fortunately it didn't make me sick.
That is the craziest asparagus I have ever seen...lol Love your videos. Informative A.F.
Wow just received this guide and I could not be happier, Mom has had 3 groups for 50 plus years, I have wanted to grow some myself, is there a way to get some from her and transplant to my place? These have been around for at least 80 plus years almost 3 generations, hope you can help. Bought some bulbs at Wal-Mart but they did not grow. Any advise. Yourself, Jeff burhard and Cali have been helping throughout this year. Wish winter wasn't around the corner. Live in southern New Hampshire.
Thanks in advance.
If you need cold hardy rhubarb order the seeds from a Canadian company. Ours survive -40c in the winter and up to +38c in the summer and grow up to 5 feet tall in rocky clay
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Been growing it for 30 years. my grandparents grew it. I love it raw.
Dang, How do you do it?!? it is so tart!
+MIgardener | Simple Organic Gardening & Sustainable Living I just got use to it as a child I guess. I also add a little salt to it. but the tart never really bothered me it's delicious!!!!
The only place we see that kind of fence down here is around Least Tern nesting areas at the beach. Are gardening in a nesting area? lol Great video!
thanks for all the good growing tips. I like rhubarb, but have only ever eaten it in pie. I did start trying to grow this, but I also try to eat healthier and consume less white sugar. I guess I'll have to look up some new recipes. If Sindy knows some, hopefully she will share. Tho, I know she's got her hands full.
Thank you for this, we have been growing rhubarb (in pots so we can take them with us when we find more land). It has done very well but glad to know of the September feeding.
Glad it helped! Don't feel bad about not knowing. I can't tell you how many people don't do it.
Do you have to water yr Rhubarb more since it's in a container versus what he said in ground.
Appreciated the info exchange.
How should I winterize my rhubarb if it's in a container? Also how much red do the stems need to have in order to be okay to eat? I would like to harvest mine soon since the first frost is more than likely on it's way so the sooner the answer the better. Thanks a bunch! And thanks so much for all your videos they have been the go to for all my gardening need to knows. I have learned so much from your channel! :)
Great video, thanks.
I read that rhubarb doesn't like to be moved because the roots get disturbed. I had to move a red champagne though from clay soil, where it was growing well, to a big pot with compost. Now almost straight away it looks like it is dying. Is there anything I can do to save it? This is its first year, grown from a small bare root crown.
Thanks!
I love rhubarb it grows great in michigan, it grows in our woods but it's a little invasive
We grow amazing rhubarb in Northern BC with temps well below -20 in the winter, even -40 It grows in the Yukon as well. No mulch on top during the winter. It is a very hardy plant
We have to grow the green rhubarb here in the south... Usually on the north side of the house... But we have had luck getting it to come back (grown in heavy peat)... Its not a tart, but with a touch of lemon juice, we've learned how to make do... Combined with strawberries (like you mentioned) it is difficult to tell the difference if done right... Another great vid... Thank you for sharing...
Our Rhubarb survives here in southern Alberta and we have frequent visits to -40c. Covered in mulch and growing strong for years now.
I love this also! Thank you. Quick question: Since it mines the minerals from deep, could I just use the leaves as mulch or just bury them in the soil after harvesting? I've found rhubarb to be the hardest thing I've tried to grow. In fact, not successful in 3 distinct places I've tried. I'm in 6b. I've tried them in full sun and also in an area that gets some shade for part of the day. Frustrating.
Rhubarb grows really well in Alberta, Canada - which has about 3 weeks of -30 C below a year.
it awesome but i end up buying as i just can not managed to grow from seed but i keep trying lovely update
I got my seeds form your seeds store and I started them late spring. so excited to see them get big! they are still a lot smaller than yours. will this turn all red or just the bottom?
Great video on growing Rhubarb. Can you tell me how to harvest/save the seeds to start new plants? Thanks!
Fun fact, my uncle has an old home stead type cabin with rhubarb growing under the Eve in Montana where temps routinely reach -40 below zero 🥶 and his rhubarb has been flourishing since I was a young child (I’m turning 30 this year!!)
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I discovered my variety does not turn all red. It does readily start bolting in mid April in the Midwest. At times I don't even think Bonnie plants or those root starts at stores are sure of the plants characteristics.
I sowed 3x40 plug trays with rhubarb seed in my greenhouse, every one of the seeds germinated. I left the greenhouse door open during the day to help them harden off and closed the door at night! In just one night I had an attack from slugs and snails that must have come in during the day! I now have just 2 seedlings left, the rest are just bare stumpy stalks! I had a layer of 100% coffee granules surrounding the seed table the slugs and snails left thousands of silver trails all over it! I have searched under each tray and not found any of the greedy slugs and snails! I have found a few in old upturned plant pots... not enough to account for the one nihgt party on my seedlings... they have now attacked my pepper and chilli plants! I have searched and searched the greenhouse but only found half a dozen or so! Any advice will be gratefully received.
After we sold the parents home. the family divided the plants. the rhubarb patch was well over 60 years old. lv the rhubarb cake
That's a really beautiful story! To think that your parents plants live on with the rest of the family. :)
I moved to this house 24 years ago. It had a large patch of rhubarb. For 18 years I did nothing at all. No nutrients, no watering, no nothing. During those years we had down to -38C for a whole week at worst. Always -20C every winter basically. Still it has continued to grow. A couple of years ago I started taking care of the garden, planting blackberries, gooseberries and other favorites of mine. This is also when I first started harvesting the rhubarb and fertilizing it, watering occasionally and so on. Makes absolutely delicious marmalade . Point being, rhubarb can survive almost everything and still thrive. Next project is trying to separate some plants out to other places in the garden. Must be at least 10-12 in the patch.
Hey y'all in the comments section, love reading about your ideas both pros and cons, really enjoy the discussion!👍👍👍
Do you let it go to seed? Mine are flowering and I don’t remember that from my childhood rhubarb plant... my mom made strawberry rhubarb jam and pie -yum! Happy Gardening!
Also could you teach us how to collect rhubarb seeds or whatever the method is to making more plants?
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I have some Rhubarb growing next to my house in Fairbanks, AK. It has been growing there for at least 5 years since I have had the house. It regularly gets below -40 and can get -60, but the plant just keeps going. I have never fertilized or watered or done anything, grows like a weed.
Really cool, guide. Those plants look awesome :-)
There are numerous varieties of green rhubarb and they are completely edible. I personally prefer the red, but many folks, around here, grow the green variety. Also, they survive -40F winters, here, as well.
In my damp part of northern Britain, rhubarb grows for fun.
No effort, no help, no special soils.
Mine had grown in rubble and hardcore a builder had dumped when the house was built.
Falk Harvard I'm about to start growing rhubarb for the first time so your comment made me feel relieved!
We lived in Iowa a lot while growing up. Rhubarb grew in a lot of yards.
Will rhubarb grow well here in central Arkansas? Hot summers mostly mild winters? I really enjoy watching your videos, very professional and informative! God bless and keep you!👍👍
I'm planning on planting some in the spring here in Northwest Arkansas. Same variety as in the video--I started the seeds a few weeks ago and expect to have some pretty decent plants to go in the ground, probably in late April in my location (earlier for you). I'm treating it as strictly experimental and have decided on a site that gets shade for part of the day. Notwithstanding Luke's comment that rhubarb tolerates heat, I have never seen another source supporting that. There's a reason it's not commonly grown in the South. Most sources say that when the average temperature (presumably the average over the entire day) exceeds 75F, it's likely to have problems. Obviously in Arkansas in July and August with nighttime temperatures potentially not falling below 80F for weeks at a time, heat is going to be a problem.
If you want more information about rhubarb in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service does have a two page brochure on the topic. You can web search for "uaex rhubarb" and will likely find it.
From canada. We have spells in the winter of -40 to -50. I have 8 rhubarb plants. They have been there for 20 years.
rhubarb is unkillable. I mow mine over occasionally and it's back in a week
Not true, just planted mine out from pots, and the chickens ate them. GASP! I wonder if they will come back up in the spring. I think most of them got scratched up tho. Grrr.
threw some roots out where they should have just dried up. grass grew up around them and the rhubarb grew too!
So true. I had some in a pot, decided I needed that pot so dumped it upside down in a heap. Within a few weeks it had grown upside down and came back alive. Survives the Aussie summers with no watering. It's almost like it thrives on neglect.
Not my experience slow growing where I am and when mowed over twice it killed it. Ive never found it easy to grow.
I let my babies outside in a yogurt container all winter in PA. Thought they were dead. Nope, they just came up.
Id love to see how these plants are doing several years later.
Ok- so our rhubarbs were cheap transplants I bought off someone. They were so sad when we put them in. Because we're busy (2 kids 3 and under....) we didn't get to fertilize and basically just got them in the ground. They were super quick to perk up, new sproutings....but we've had a TON of rain and they have slowed WAY down. Should I cut off the sad stalks that have since wilted? Should I go ahead and put fertilizer over top since they missed out? We've got mulch surrounding the plants but I'm not sure what else to do. (We live in SE MN, zone 4 so I've gotta get them rooted well for our winters.)
when started buy seed as a perennial are the harvestible first season or should I expect to harvest next year?
I've had my plant for about ten years and the crown's are looking very big. I'm not a well educated gardener, I usually throw it in and see what happens, bad I know. But every year this plant does so well. But this year I have noticed not so well and like I said, the crown's are huge. Should I be cutting these down every winter or should I be splitting the plant?
my grandma makes stewed rhubarb, and as a child, I always called it rhubarb soup.
Yum, with hot custard!
I always heard that you need to wait for 2 years after planting for first harvest, is that true with all varieties? And if that's the case, when would be the best time to plant and would staggered planting work?
I remember chewing on the stems as a kid and never got sick from them...but some say I have a cast iron stomach too.
makes great wine i get 50 bot a year out of my crop and when you add in the other ingredients it works out at 20 pence UK a bot at super 16% wine
Thank you, my rhubarb looks great but stems are green and it is July now . Maybe fall or august
Harvested a few stalks last night for the family to eat. We r year 2 with it and I heard u shouldn't harvest year 1 so it can establish. It was tasty. We take the health benefits out when we eat it because we dip it in sugar when we eat it. 😋
In the U.K. we grow them under ceramic chimney pots, this produces less growth, but what you do get is less woody and sweeter tasting.
-18 F? Is that a joke. It can go to -45 here and the next spring is back as if nothing.
A friend gave me some of her rhubarb to plant and when I first planted it was doing great!! It’s planted in full sun, in ground and I mulched it. It was transplanted in February. Now it’s just not growing very well. In the video you say to fertilize and I’ve never done that. Just wondering if that could be what is wrong??
Is it too late start seeds now August 11th/mid august in michigan and plant outside this year?
Hi Luke. I want to move my rhubarb plants to a different spot. When is the best time to do this?
can I compost ruhbarb, bec it's sour. the leaves are ok. I saw you compost rhubard in another vid, but I wasn't sure. thanks a lot.
I live in south-central Wisconsin. Is Victoria a good variety for me too? Is it too late for me to start some from seed this year (June 20)?
Your rhubarb plants look really nice and healthy. What do you think about the idea of using rhubarb as a full-sun alternative for hosta in the perennial garden? What are rhubarbs insect pests? Your rhubarb leaves look spotless!
Please... got a question... i have a huge rhubarb... i see many say to remove seed shoots... is this what needs to be done? also can i freeze harvested rhubarb? i need to harvest this i belive its huge and first time ever having it! thanks
You don't have to remove the seed shoots, but when a rhubarb starts making seeds, the growth of the stalks will slow down giving you a lesser harvest. That's why it's recommended to remove them.
Yes, you can absolutely freeze rhubarb! :) We get over 20 kg (44 lbs) of rhubarb each year, and we just wash them and cut them into usable pieces, and then just pack them in freezer bags of 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lbs) each, and then freeze them for up to a year.
You may want to add an annotation to let people know you meant Bone meal not Blood meal in the fall... Don't want anyone to flip flop the two... Thanks for the growing guide, I'm planning on trying rhubarb next year
We have no problem growing rhubarb here in Minnesota where it can get -20 at times.
I have a cauliflower looking to growing out of mine and they are just beginning to grow this spring. Should I cut this off to keep from going to seed?!! Doesn’t make sense because it just started growing.
I have my rhubarb in a big container. A half wine barrel actually.
I’m having a great time growing it.
Like it’s huge, however it’s all green all the time. Nothin has turned red.
Not only that but black Aphids are all over it.
I cut it all down to start over and sprayed that white earth stuff on it, but the aphids came back.
Any tips?
I always hear that Rhubarb likes full sun. Where I grew up in SE Alaska Rhubarb grows like a weed. I mean huge, its everywhere. Rhubarb pie is very popular! So we always have very good success growing it in Alaska with very little light, usually under an evergreen forest, so high acid, lots of peat bog and of course tons of rain (SE is rainforest). My question is how come I can't get this stuff to grow in southern NY in full sun? it starts to leaf in spring and just gets about 3 inches tall and thats it. I used compost organic fertilizer. Not sure whats going on. This year I will try partial shade. Maybe it just needs lots of water? Well I know it does.
We have Rhubarb in our backyard that we completely ignore. Never water, never fertilize, etc. It was just here when we moved in. The thing gets MASSIVE and produces so much that we need to give some away every year. We also live in Ottawa where it easily gets -25 Celsius to +30 Celsius. It's a goddamn terminator...On many occasions I've wanted to give it fertilizer/water but I know as soon as I start messing with it it will die on me lol
I live in Colorado my rhubarb get more then enough sun but yet it keeps going to seed every year. What am I doing wrong?
Artichokes? How do you grow artichokes in Michigan? I thought they were tropical.
My rhubarb is mostly green and I eat it all the time , no problem .
completely off subject as far as the title but i want a video of your root systems of your basic summer varietys. tomatoes and peppers for sure. i just took out 5 tomatoes plants and while i was impressed with trifecta early on i think i have other issues that need to be addressed. one plant in general looked to be rotten in the root system and others had big growths on them. started indoors and in califonia i was happy until about july where i had some bug issues but then 110 degrees hit and not as good. but to say a bust no its just not as good as i would like and the roots werent what i expected to see. im sure theres a few people who judge like i do from the final root system to try and adjust next year so please give us a heads up if you can on how yours look and ways to fix issues if at all possible thanks