Rhubarb

[SweetMissDaisy]

This is a great thread! Finally back up in the PNW and I can grow this favorite of mine again! I just couldn't keep it alive in tx with the drought and heat. Yay for rhubarb!

 

[TReeves]

Thanks for all the information.
@SweetMissDaisy where in Texas were you? It hasn't gotten really hot yet. Hopefully they'll live.

 

[baymule]

There is a nursery 18 miles from my house and they offer rhubarb. If they can grow it, don't see why I can't. I live north of Tyler Texas. Since it is a permanent plant, waiting until we get settled in better. Only been here since mid February and barely got a garden in. But rhubarb is on the list!

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Thanks for all the information.
@SweetMissDaisy where in Texas were you? It hasn't gotten really hot yet. Hopefully they'll live.

45mi N of Waco... we were on a slight rise for the area, so even tho areas near us would get rain, we would get NONE most of the time. WAY hot, WAAAAY dry.

 

[thistlebloom]

Don't let me discourage you, but unless that nursery grows their own stock it doesn't necessarily mean they sell plants that will grow in the area. They order stock in from other states.
Some people grow it as an annual.

 

[TReeves]

I was curious because I'm in El Paso. I water 3 times a day. The person that gave the rhubarb to me grows it next to her porch. I put two in two separate large planters. Those are the one's thriving. The one I planted in the ground isn't really growing.

 

[baymule]

Pretty sure they grow it on site, but good point. I'll ask, just to be sure.

 

[Nyboy]

Isn't part of the joy of gardening growing thing your not suppose in your area?

 

[seedcorn]

Had first rhubarb crisp last night. Oh so good although had to use flour instead of corn starch for thickener-didn't work as well

 

[bills]

I generously add chicken poop during the fall and winter, over the roots. By spring it's all composted down, and the stalks grow huge, and produce all spring and into the summer. You'd swear it was Gunnera..lol
A popular local garden expert and lecturer, Dez Kennedy, said his secret was to regularly water his rhubarb with a mixture of his urine and water. Obviously these plants love nitrogen..