How to plant out rhubarb crowns
Learn how to plant out your rhubarb crowns, with these simple instructions.
1 crown 400065-1 | £5.95 |
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3 crowns 400065-3 | £14.95 |
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A reliable and easy heritage variety that’s one of the earliest to fruit and excellent for forcing. It’s deliciously sweet, lovely in puddings and for cordials.
Genus | Rheum |
Group/Species | x hybridum |
Variety | Champagne |
Type | Edible Crop |
Common Name | Rhubarb |
Border Position | Kitchen Garden |
Soil Type | Broad Tolerance |
Scent | Unscented |
Site | Full Sun |
Moisture | Moist but Well-drained |
Height | 60cm (24in) |
Spacing | 90cm (36in) |
Sowing, Seeds, Planting | Rhubarb needs an open, sunny site with moist, but free-draining soil as it hates being waterlogged in winter. Avoid frost pockets as stems are susceptible to frost. Keep rhubarb free of weeds by covering the ground with a mulch of composted manure, but avoid burying the crown as it will rot. |
Care Tips | Don't harvest anything in the first season. Just mulch your plants - not too close to the crown - and let them grow and establish themselves well. Simply allow the sticks of rhubarb to die back in the first autumn. Spread organic compost around the crown in its dormant winter phase. Grow in an area which has not grown rhubarb in the last six years. |
Harvesting | Harvest late May |
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Learn how to plant out your rhubarb crowns, with these simple instructions.
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