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Rhubarb Dying?

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  • 02-06-2012 2:31pm
    #1
    Mo60
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    Just checked my rhubarb and found all the leaves and stalks have died back. Crowns don't look too healthy, seem to be soft.

    Should I dig them up or are they likely to grow back?


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    Oldtree
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    Are they rotten/waterlogged?

    My rubarb seems to be doing somthing strange at the moment too but the crowns look healthy and have the appearance of more leaves to come.

    I have spoken to a few people about their rubarb this year as mine was very stringy/fiberous and not too good. This seems to have been a problem to a few people and may have had somthing to do with the wind earlier this year as one man who had 2 seperate crowns, one in a sheltered location which was ok and one not which was stringy.


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    arandale
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    Everyone i know has bad Rhurbarb this year for some reason


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    #4
    dfbemt
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    Same here.

    Was great during April but during May it started to die off - soft stalks with no replacements growing.

    Has to be the weather ?


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    Cardinal Richelieu
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    Same, I thought it was due to splitting the crowns before the winter. That said I got a great crop of forced rhubard from a couple of plants. Another section in shade doesn't look as bad but the rest are short and stringy. It might be due to the mild winter, if I remember correctly rhubarb is originally Siberian in origin so requires a certain amount of cold temp. I might try putting a couple of plants in large pots and placing them in the fridge as insurance if next winter is mild.


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    Oldtree
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    That sounds like a good idea, you must have a huge fridge?? :D


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    Cardinal Richelieu
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    Oldtree wrote: »
    That sounds like a good idea, you must have a huge fridge?? :D

    Walk in:D, enough for a couple of pallets. Don't use it much now. The fridge trick is used by commercial strawberry growers to replicate winter if you want two crops in a summer.


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    fryup
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    first time ever my rhubarb has failed, spring was too cold i think


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    byhookorbycrook
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    Mine was good, and still is. Had given it a good feed earlier in the spring.


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    fitzcoff
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    We have 2 crowns in the polytunnel and there is no problem with it, we will have our third crop from it this week.


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