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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Rhubarb under grapevines

Light isn't the problem, fertilizer is.  Rhubarb likes LOTS of fertilizer - rotted manure, that sort of thing.  Plant it near the grapes and you will overfertilize them in the process, making them too vigorous and disrupting fruit set.
> -Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com

From: "Joe Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:51:52 -0400
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Rhubarb under grapevines

> Hello:
>
> Does anybody have experience planting rhubarb under grapevines?
>
> I bought a package of rhubarb seed and now have 14 plants.  I am 
> looking for a place to put them.  The grapes are primarily French-
> American hybrids trained to Geneva Double Curtain.  
>
> It certainly looks like there will be plenty of light until June 15, or 
> so and I much prefer rhubarb to nettles, thistles and catnip that now 
> want to grow there.
>
> Any comments or observations will be appreciated.
> -- 
> Joe Hecksel
> Personal Webpage http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel
>
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