Ravishing rhubarb! Dramatically beautiful, delicious and easy to grow!
A surprisingly versatile plant, rhubarb can be used to make drinks, crumbles, chutneys, sauces… the list goes on.
Its striking good looks with its bold, ruby stems and umbrella-like leaves, will add height and structure to your garden along with a splash of gorgeous colour that will return year in year out.
In this video, you’ll learn everything you need to know to grow and care for your own rhubarb. Autumn is the best time to get it in the ground – you will be reaping the rewards of rhubarb sooner than you thought!
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Query, when is a good time to transplant the Rhubarb? I planted mine a little too close.
A little late to the party here, but I love your videos. They are always useful, informative, interesting, and enjoyable. Well done!!
I routinely raid my mostly absentee allotment neighbours' three rhubarb beds (with their permission of course) to make wine from – a 1 gal Pinot Grigio kit will make 2 gals of wine, sprinking sugar at 20g per litre for 1%abv for the other gallon over the chopped stems to draw the flavour out before fermenting under airlock.
Thank You for sharing. My husband and I ate rhubarb for the first time last year. Yummy. Bought our first rhubarb plant this year. Hoping to get decades of yummy rhubarb from it.
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Thanks for the vid Ben, it answered all my questions. Just started prepping the soil for eight decent plants. Just got to find some well rotted horse poo !!. Have subscribed. Cheers.
Thank you Ben! Have a a plant in need of manure!! Wish I had this video when I planted mine! Look forward to the wonderful abundant plant I will view next season!
My rhubarb plant is huge and has grown more over after June. Du pull out all the stems before winter and then cover it up with compost?
I had established rhubarb plants in my garden that got over grown by brambles, as I was ill I couldn't do much outside .
I have now cut it all back so does anyone know if they will grow back, they have been growing there for abou 30 years so are they to old now ?
Rhubab is the same chard and are the leaves of radish or what?And malabar spanich?
I remember my grandmothers patch in New York. It was huge. Mom and dad would come home with bags of it. Then we would have pie periodically throughout the year. It’s one of my favorites for making crisps.
I forgot about this plant until last year when my neighbor gave me some.
Nothing beats introducing someone to this miracle. I wouldn't force outdoors though. That's just asking for a beaver infestation.
Ben , your videos are so fun , you are thoughtful and thorough , you make me smile and laugh .
I live in Indonesia, we have monsoon for 6 months and summer for another 6 months, can i plant rhubarb in this weather? Harsh summer and Harsh rainy season
Unsure of the Victoria variety since mine were gifted by divisions with a 'Free' sigh, but rhubarb can be acidic. Pouring boiling water over the prepared and cut rhubarb chunks, steeping for a couple of minutes, followed by discarding the water, will permit reducing recipe sugar amounts by about half.
I was always told not to put the leaves into the compost heap due to it being poisonous.
I keep reading that because the roots go down deep it’s best to dig down 2 spits and then add organic matter to the soil.
this is so aphex twin
I've successfully grown and killed Rhubarb 3 times in the past; I've just bought 3 new plants and will apply your tips to avoid disappointment for a fourth time!
Can rhubarb be grown in tropical environment like Vietnam or Thailand
i was offered some rhubarb roots from a fellow allotment grower. When digging it out it had Vine weevil. Didn’t take it.
I am reorganizing my garden. Can I replant my rhubarbs and split them to get more?
Can I ask where you got your forcing jar? I’m trying to buy them in the US, and they are apparently very expensive and collectible.
My father kept a patch of rhubarb around the house I grew up in. This plant is the reason I love sweet and tart things. My mother would help us harvest it and turn it into strawberry rhubarb jams and pies. I just recently started my own patch of rhubarb.
You can indeed cover the crown if its coarse enough and it's not a yearly event. once every five years with woody material even sunflower stalks is enough. forcing rhubarb after all is tricking it into thinking its buried. it's all about moisture. it originally came from some wild stock some time in the past and natures not too fussy about covering things with leaves or filling areas with weeds, rhubarbs have enormous leaves that can if left, block all weeds from growing and encroaching. winter weeds are soon killed off from a lack of light. i've never known an established rhubarb be outcompeted by anything other than a tree.
Thank you for this video. I planted some rhubarb seeds last autumn which didn’t do well. I’ve planted more, but it’s been snowing and I forgot to bring the pot in. Hopefully 3rd time lucky if I take your advice. Plant in spring and try the container with a hole for light.
Just a quick question. Do you have advice for keeping cats away from your garden?