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I'm taking over a new plot and would like to plant 10-12 rhubarb crowns along one side(sunny side).

Preferably I'd like a selection of early, mid and late season(autumn) plants, and at a decent cost. Are there any suppliers that spring to mind?

They won't be the cheapest, but our favourite mail order nursery for really nice quality plants is Blackmoor. http://www.blackmoor.co.uk/index.php?cPath=195&osCsid=l4792k4mt69ble22c9g6q6ehm4

And this guy is pretty good, too. http://www.vegetableplantsdirect.co.uk/ourshop/cat_330425-Rhubarb.html

http://rvroger.co.uk/index.php?linksource=stockgroup&webpage=rhubarb&listgroupfile=fruitandnuttrees&parentpagefile=opengroundfruit&season=MAIN&caller=Header

12 seems an awful lot !! when I first had my plot I planted 6, with the glut I reduced it to 3 and this year down to 1 well established crown, which is enough for me and her indoors.

You must like rhubarb to plant that many !!

I've got 4.. and 3 is too many for eating but I do put lot of the growth in good use as mulch underneath other plants.

Here are about 6 (or 7?) full grown standing in 2 x 5 meters. And yes, it is a lot of Rubarb, a lot to clean and cook but the taste is tremendous!

Goodlife - What a wonderful website you sent me to!

So many rhubarb varieties... and then the gooseberries.

Wow.

Thank you.

Quote from: delboy on August 14, 2012, 23:17:20
Goodlife - What a wonderful website you sent me to!

So many rhubarb varieties... and then the gooseberries.

Wow.

Thank you.

Ah..yes, the gooseberries. I've been drooling over them myself for sometime now and I find difficult to narrow the choises down so I could actually order some... ::)

I've 6 plants- 4 posh ones from Rogers nursery as Goodlife suggests- great plants. and two allotment plants that I inherited!
Love it and give spare to friends at work.

Thats an awful lot of rhubarb.  I've got 3 and that keeps us very well supplied and even left over for about 20 jars of rhubarb and ginger jam each year.

Relatives.  1 sister + daughter; 1 brother + partner; 4 children, all with partners and 4 kids between them; 2 parents; and neighbours... greedy ones. That's without office colleagues and friends who keep turning up "just to see what's ready for harvesting now".

I've got 6 and 3 different varities. However there is a new Rhubarb just been released which you can harvest in Autumn. I'm trying to work out where I could fit it in.

http://www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk/seeds-plants-gardening/43334/rhubarb-potted-plant-livingstone