rhubarb

[luckycharlie]

 
  Help!!

        Have just been down to our allotment and my rhubarb looks like it's    dying    the leaves are going pale very thin stalks and just looks miserable  It has had manure and grass cutting on it. Have watered it well too. Any suggestions.

  X Chas

[luckycharlie]

[Digeroo]

Have you used your manure and grass clippings on any other plants?  Are they ok.

Does it need water?

[luckycharlie]

hi digeroo,

     Have used this manure since last year but it is the first time have used grass clippings but the grass has never been treated 'and didn't use a lot. Also have been down and watered every day


X Chas

[Fork]

hi digeroo,

     Have used this manure since last year but it is the first time have used grass clippings but the grass has never been treated 'and didn't use a lot. Also have been down and watered every day


X Chas

Do you water your rhubarb every day?......maybe thats the problem...maybe nor.Just clutching at straws here really  ???

[luckycharlie]

   Well most days if it hasn't rained !!!

   At the beginning of April it was great and I pulled some up they were nice thick stems do you think that's what I did wrong?

X Chas

[Fork]

Ive been picking since then and mine is still producing thick stems....cant give it away quick enough!

Im afraid your predicament has got me stumped!

[luckycharlie]

   Thanks for trying anyway!!

  Will just keep trying and perhaps get another plant for next year  :(

  X Chas

[Buster54]

Found this
Rhubarb is a cool season, perennial plant that is very winter hardy and resistant to drought. Its crop is produced from crowns consisting of fleshy rhizomes and buds. Following a season of growth the rhubarb crown becomes dormant and temperatures below 40 °F / 5 °C are required to stimulate bud break and subsequent growth. The first shoots to appear in the spring are edible petioles and leaves. These emerge sequentially as long as temperatures remain cool (below 90 °F / 32 °C). As temperatures increase, top growth is suppressed, even appearing dormant in periods of extreme heat. With declining temperatures in later summer, foliage growth resumes.Established clumps will have to be trimmed every 4 to 5 years or when the stalks get small and spindly or when the crown is visibly crowded

[luckycharlie]

   Thank you
  Still not sure what that means!!! but it has been very hot and windy here

  so perhaps it might survive
:-\  :-\

X Chas

[davyw1]

Dont suppose you know how old it is, I think rhubarb has best before date of 10 years then you need to dig and split the crown leaving one in just incase replanting fails.
They also like a ballanced fertilizer.

[luckycharlie]

   Hi

     One was from my aunts and was split and planted two years ago and the other one was purshased from a garden center last year. but both were fine until last week :(

X Chas

[lincsyokel2]

 :o

i got some seeds from next doors rhubarb last year, they just broke through the compost surface  :o