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my plant is in the wrong place  >:(

I'm told this is the weather to move it and split any tips please


or should i leave it for now


many thx in advance for replys

Rhubarb is a right bugger to establish, so pick your new spot well, and treat it to a bit of manure.

Yes, good time to move it now if the ground is not frozen solid.

If spliting, make sure each piece has a couple of buds, and when planting make sure the buds are not covered.

The plants I planted last year did look rather sad when I first started to grow, looked like they would keel over at any moment, and one got very sick when some ants moved in.
I let them be, except the one with ants, where I killed the ants and pulled off all the now dead growth, the soon picked up and they are all now well established.

ok plan is dig a deep hole then im mixing miracle grow compost with the earth

then plant the buggers wish me luck

It's very hard to kill, just give it a season to establish. Don't break your back lifting the rootballs!

Did anyone else have problems with Rhurbarb going to seed very quickly and early last season. On my site it was especially bad and no one could give an anwser as to why.Can any body here help?
Curios more than concerned.
I have decided to plant a new patch this year but would like to keep my old ones.They are not the sweetest flavoured but due to the relatively short picking season they will be used in pies and crumbles and will be used until the new ones are ready in a season or two. At £20 for three crowns they had better be sweet.

I always get a lot trying to go to seed. It's not a problem, I just remove the flowerbuds as fast as I see them.

Quote from: flitwickone on December 22, 2009, 20:03:21
my plant is in the wrong place  >:(
I'm told this is the weather to move it and split any tips please
or should i leave it for now

When you do get to move it ensure you put loads of manure in the planting hole and around the plant on the surface.  It will give better future harvests if you leave it alone for the first year and resist harvesting any fruit.  The plant becomes more established.

Started off two years ago with a root clump(?)  given by a friend. Put it in nice sunny corner out of the way, gave it a good dressing of compost and let it grow. Did not harvest any first year and by the seccond year had a rhubarb patch about 3 foot square. Looked late last year when top dressing again and have got lots of buds and they have about doubled in size. This year I think I might have to start controlling it. So give it a sunny space, lots of horse muck, and dont try harvesting for at least a year and you too will have a patch to be proud of.

Wouldnt mind but I cant stand the stuff but OH loves it  :D

I loves rhubarb

My old Geoffrey Smith (bless him)  book says jeave em to get hard frosted and then when the waether breaks slip em in a well prepared hole

Is that still the best policy

dax