How to Grow Rhubarb - Complete Growing Guide

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In this episode the topic of this complete growing guide is rhubarb. Rhubarb is delicious and very nutritious. Rich in vitamins and minerals it is a wonderful plant to have. It also is a perennial which is even better! Plant it once and forget it. We will be talking about how tog row it when it comes to fertilizing, sunlight, soil type, when to harvest, what to harvest, how to get it ready for winter, and how to pull it out of dormancy in the spring.

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Also could you teach us how to collect rhubarb seeds or whatever the method is to making more plants?

How should I winterize my rhubarb if it's in a container? Also how much red do the stems need to have in order to be okay to eat? I would like to harvest mine soon since the first frost is more than likely on it's way so the sooner the answer the better. Thanks a bunch! And thanks so much for all your videos they have been the go to for all my gardening need to knows. I have learned so much from your channel! :)

I start mowing mine down in late July. Is that bad? I don't use it but the neighbors harvest from it so I'd like to keep it growing.

thanks for all the good growing tips. I like rhubarb, but have only ever eaten it in pie. I did start trying to grow this, but I also try to eat healthier and consume less white sugar. I guess I'll have to look up some new recipes. If Sindy knows some, hopefully she will share. Tho, I know she's got her hands full.

Hi Matt, just watched your rhubarb video. I grew up in North Dakota and the temperatures would get down to -40 below zero, yet rhubarb was a common plant on many farmsteads and home gardens. Also in regard to green stem rhubarb being posionous I disagree. When I was kid that was all we had. Only difference between the green and red rhubarb was that the green took more sugar when making jams, sauces, pies and cakes.

I grow rhubarb here and it has gotten to negative 65.

The only place we see that kind of fence down here is around Least Tern nesting areas at the beach. Are gardening in a nesting area? lol Great video!

Great video, thanks.

I read that rhubarb doesn't like to be moved because the roots get disturbed. I had to move a red champagne though from clay soil, where it was growing well, to a big pot with compost. Now almost straight away it looks like it is dying. Is there anything I can do to save it? This is its first year, grown from a small bare root crown.

Thanks!

completely off subject as far as the title but i want a video of your root systems of your basic summer varietys. tomatoes and peppers for sure. i just took out 5 tomatoes plants and while i was impressed with trifecta early on i think i have other issues that need to be addressed. one plant in general looked to be rotten in the root system and others had big growths on them. started indoors and in califonia i was happy until about july where i had some bug issues but then 110 degrees hit and not as good. but to say a bust no its just not as good as i would like and the roots werent what i expected to see. im sure theres a few people who judge like i do from the final root system to try and adjust next year so please give us a heads up if you can on how yours look and ways to fix issues if at all possible thanks

I'm sorry but the first thing that came to mind when I saw the heading was this video. LMAO!! Don't want to offend anyone...I just found it hilarious.

https://www.facebook.com/jeremyshouse/videos/202530256573096/

All i ever see now is those killer white butterflys . the killer of my garden

Thanks for sharing the video cheers :)

Really cool, guide. Those plants look awesome :-)

Great series🌱

Luke,
we love our rhubarb here in Canada. I've got root transplants that date back from a Saskatchewan farm over 100 years. it gets as low as -40C to as high as +40C and the rhubarb thrives in full sun and some new top soil. I don't fertilize at all and my 2 year old transplants (5 plants) yielded over 70 cups of chopped rhubarb! biggest point I learned is never harvest more than 1/3 of the plant at a time.

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Very good information, Luke. I appreciate the fall fertilizing (phosphorous). We only have two rhubarb plants in the container and we are considering resituating them.

it awesome but i end up buying as i just can not managed to grow from seed but i keep trying lovely update

You may want to add an annotation to let people know you meant Bone meal not Blood meal in the fall... Don't want anyone to flip flop the two... Thanks for the growing guide, I'm planning on trying rhubarb next year

I come from Slovenia. And we do grow rhubarb. My grandma's plant is over 50 years old and all my plants came from that. We pick stems all year round. They are never red, pinkish at the best. So I do think it is up to variety. I allso do not water them and actually never fertilaze. In the part I live it can get - 22°C in winter and +35°C in summer they are not bothered by it.
I do wonder, what you do when flowers appear? If we don't pull them of the production of stems is zero to none. If we propagate we do it by dividing roots. And what do you think? Are the leafs appropriate for composting or not?