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  • From: "Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai" <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: rhubarb
  • Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 06:49:15 -0700


Hi Liz, hope you enjoy your tasty new crop.  The type we have is a
strawberry rhubarb, nice pink colouring throughout the stock and large stock diameter 1" at the top increasing to 2" at the base.  It seems the more you pull out the more it produces - ours doesn't stop until the freeze happens. We propogate ours by dividing the roots with a shovel and then transplanting elsewhere, found out it will grow pretty much anywhere here - even under trees.  We divide it even during it's peak growth, (I don't think I should recommend that though) and it still grows, the new transplants will be ready for harvesting in 2 months.  To fertilize we throw one shovel of mushroom manure on it.  On a plant that we have here at home it took it from being a knee high plant with mid sized leaves to being a chest high plant with leaves as big as my garbage can lid, the stalks were over 2'.  I had read somewhere that the leaves have oxalic acid in them (poisonous) and to not
put in the compost - so I garbage them instead.  My favourite for rhubarb recipes is a pie that uses pomegranite juice in it - great flavour! Jacqueline
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