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    Focus on…Rhubarb

    Nov 24, 2020 4 minutes

    Next week: Caring for blueberries, using growlights for indoor gardening, protect exotics, scrape indoor grapes, grow garlic mustard.

    Did you know?

    Rhubarb leaves contain roughly twice as much oxalic acid as the stems. However, weight for weight, parsley and purslane contain more than rhubarb.

    AS well as being a great time to plant rhubarb, November is your cue to lift and divide poorly performing clumps. Rhubarb thrives in cool, moist summers, and clumps will happily yield for years (if not decades) when properly looked after. Congestion is the main issue – thin, weak stems and the production of flower spikes are signs that your plants are due for division.

    This process allows you to slice off and replant the vigorous, outer (and younger) pieces

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