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Garden ? Poison or Not ?

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  • 10-07-2007 3:31pm
    #1
    mamags
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭


    hI, I have a lot of rhubarb growing, have been told the leaves are poison,
    want to know if it is safe to put the leaves in my compost heap.:(


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    Irish Gardener
    Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭Irish Gardener


    Hello mamags.
    The oxalic acid which makes rhubarb leaves toxic is counteracted in the composting process.
    No problem, compost away.


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    mamags
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭mamags


    Thanks Irish Gardener, for the info, have an old cottage garden, love my nettles and dandylions as well as my flowers, will probably be tormenting you over time as I do not know alot about plants. If I like what I see....I plant it.:)


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    old boy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭old boy


    better still put them in a large container, fill with water, leave for 4 weeks the mix you are left with will chase off all pests from your brassicas etc.


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    mamags
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭mamags


    Thankyou too OLD BOY, might just do that with some of them, the leaves are huge on some of the rhubarb, and take up a lot of room in the compost bags, have a load of barrels around the yard catching water, thinking of the HOT DRY SUMMER we were going to have, Boy did I get that one wrong.


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    Nevyn
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    Rhubarb leaves are only poisonous if they are ingested that is eaten or a tea made out of them.


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