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| michgirl |
Posted - Oct 27 2013 : 06:22:23 AM
Hey gardeners! I transplanted some wonderful big rhubarb plants this year. Now it has frosted here in Wisconsin, do I pull off the frostbitten leaves or do I just leave them until spring?? Looking forward to lots of rhubarb in May and want to keep these beauties going! |
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| michgirl |
Posted - Oct 31 2013 : 07:07:33 AM
Thanks for all the great advice! I knew you all would come through!
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| queenmushroom |
Posted - Oct 30 2013 : 06:34:50 AM
We mow over them or weed wack them more for aesthetics than anything. Our the cow manure to them in the spring.
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Oct 28 2013 : 12:01:36 PM
We just let them do their own thing and they come back every year---bigger and sometimes better. MB
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| windypines |
Posted - Oct 27 2013 : 7:17:27 PM
I will second that do nothing with rhubarb. They do love some horse manure worked in around them.
just a girl farming in WI
Michele |
| sjmjgirl |
Posted - Oct 27 2013 : 2:03:53 PM
I'm here in Iowa and I don't do anything with them. They come back every year.
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| edlund33 |
Posted - Oct 27 2013 : 1:41:53 PM
I cut the leaves off my plant in late fall and apply a thick layer of leaf mulch to protect the roots from frost until Spring. The mulch also serves as an application of organic nutrients and keeps the slugs away from the crowns all winter long.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Oct 27 2013 : 12:24:32 PM
I had always removed the old leaves to prevent mold and mildew. My rhubarb had always come back for me too. I'm curious to see what the other farmgirls do.
Dawn in IL |
