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[Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Rhubarb under grapevines

> From: "Ed Fackler" <efackler@woh.rr.com>
>
>      We had rhubarb in VERY poor soils for well over 20 years and couldn't kill it.............  Very near the dripline of a Water Maple.....

Was it good rhubarb? I assume it must've been OK... I once saw a mountain of coal mine tailings near Jasper, Alberta, covered with rhubarb. Really poor soil. That was the sourest rhubarb I've ever tasted.

-Rick