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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: Home and Garden (ARCHIVES): Rhubarb !! users admin

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Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love rhubarb!! We had three or four plants in our garden during my childhood. Summertime meant rhubarb sauce and rhubarb pies. Boy, my mom could bake pies -- good crusts!

Now I'm living in a condo with a sunny balcony. Could I grow rhubarb in a container? Large I suppose? I think basically rhubarb is a hardy plant -- not difficult to grow. But in a container? Anyone know? Any tips?

Kristylovesbb
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09-14-2000

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 5:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I found this site for you Color, this seems to be a rather complicated plant to raise. Hope this helps.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1989_March_April/About_Rhubarb

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 6:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Kristy. Guess I will check it out at a greenhouse in the area. Home-grown is better than store-bought. Like I said, I love it. Rhubarb sauce is both tart and sweet. Yummmmmm!

Kstme
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08-14-2000

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Color, I used to raise Rhubarb when we lived in Seattle. HUGE plants and I truly did nothing to them. I planted them where they got the most sun and directly under the dryer vent! The plants who were away from the vent did fine, but the ones under the vent were like jungle plants!

I bought the variety known as Strawberry-Rhubarb, it's a sweeter variety. I would say, you could grow them in a container. I haven't looked at Kristy's site, but it would seem so easy, to me. Be sure you buy good roots, split them, make sure you have great soil and irrigation in the planter. I would plant only two roots to a planter, though. They will take a couple of years to mature. Good luck and enjoy! It's too hot in the desert to grow them and I miss good Rhubarb so much!!!

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well that's not bad at all Kstme. I'm a lazy gardener unless you just put a seed in the ground fertilize and water I am lost. Of course I am just learning how to garden. Jagger has given me lots of advice on how to grow veggies in a raised garden.

Good luck Color. I hope you can raise some great Rhubard.

Kstme
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08-14-2000

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy, I am totally inept when it comes to gardening!! If it's ever lived, I usually kill it! This Rhubarb was the 'one' thing I could do!:-) Good for you, growing your own garden is so cool and EVERYTHING tastes so much better!!!!

Jagger
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08-07-2002

Monday, May 16, 2005 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My guess is Rhubarb could probably be grown in a container, as long as it has adaquate dranage. Some things about rhubard growing...

They like the cool weather more than the heat
They need the temp to hit at least 40 degrees or lower in order to break dormacy the next spring.
They like fetile, somewhat acidy ground, and they love manure.

The first year you grow rhurbarb you should not pick it, it needs the energy the leaves and stocks produce so it can reproduce the next season. Although if you see any stocks with seed heads on them pull them out or all the nutriants will go there instead of back into the plant.

I have a patch of rhurbarb that gets bigger and bigger every year, and I don't eat the stuff but I hate just pulling it out and throwing it away, I kind of like the way it looks.