Just a quick update on the rhubarb. See, you can transplant it in the middle of a dry summer during full growth and it just doesn’t care. You can’t kill it if you plant it in manure!
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I'm Tim, a 31yr old ex-Allotmenteer. My wife and I used to have a small 5 rod plot in South Essex where we grew all manner of veg. I'm also involved in brewing the odd keg of beer.
When getting down the allotment got too hard and our circumstances changed we bought a house with a 65ftx30ft garden, which we're converting into a mini orchard and veg beds.
We get up to some weird and wonderful projects - we've built a small boat, a pig roaster (powered by a windscreen wiper), a chicken run, raised beds and try our hands at all sorts of stuff getting us closer to being 'self sufficientish'.
The hope is to introduce chickens soon and hopefully let them free range during the day.
If you want to contact me, you can do so here
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Hedonist said
Hi, I recently found your blog and have been lurking silently (great stuff btw), but I feel compelled to comment on this Rhubarb photo. If that’s what yours looks like now, I am totally jealous! So far all I can see on mine is that it’s still alive, but no real growth to speak of so far…
Hedonist
admin said
Thanks Hedonist – I’ll check out your blog later! The trick is manure, manure, manure!
Hedonist said
Thanks 😀
Amazing what can be achieved with manure. I should probably stop being lazy and source some…
Diane said
I’ve planted three crowns on my allotment. I’ve got one crown in my garden too, but I want to grow enough to give some away too!
It makes sense to grow it as it seems to be even dearer this year in the supermarkets!
I adore rhubarb crumble!
John said
Tim, hope you have given your rhubarb enough room cos when those babies take off their leaves are flippin’ enormous!!. 3ft. apart is the very minimum I’d give them which is a lot of room, although its definitely worth it as I consider it a “must grow” even in my smallish garden.
admin said
They’re in a row and can go out sideways, but not widthways.