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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Rhubarb harvesting
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:35:14 -0400

On Tue, 17 May 2005 20:02:56 -0400, you wrote:

>Does anyone have a special technique for harvesting rhubarb? I
>usually just twist and pull all the bigger stems and leave the rest for
>next week. Recently one of our crew told me she'd always left a bud
>with two leaves to grow on, harvested the red stems, and removed and
>discarded the green stems. Does anyone else do this?? It seems
>rather drastic and low in productivity to me......


I do it the same way you do.

Pat
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