Epic Rhubarb! How to grow HUGE rhubarb plants!

[@Haidersdiygardening]

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[@ryankolodziej6732]

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[@ryanforbes3021]

Nice video, good info! I use old hay for mulch around my rhubarb.

[@ryankolodziej6732]

Glad you liked it. I have also used old hay or grass clippings. Basically anything to keep the weeds down.

[@ryanforbes3021]

@@ryankolodziej6732 I usually add some composted/well rotted manure and top up the mulch every year or two. I love rhubarb.

[@lynnesews9725]

I love how you got into pulling apart the crowns. The visual is very helpful. 😃

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thank you for watching!

[@paulet3682]

Enjoyed the video. Always glad to see a Wisconsin person on KZbin. I have rhubarb for years and I really didn't know what to do with the plants when they need dividing. My mom just took a shovel and sliced off chunks. I have a very large one and I will have to divide some of it. You have great soil. In SE WIS, we have so much clay. But rhubarb seems to be pretty indestructible. I try to give away plants and people tell me it always dies. I don't know how you can kill it. I have had plants in total shade and they don't die. But they don't produce either.

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Feel free to stop by the farm if you are ever up in Amherst

[@CharleeMaier-vr4wk]

Good to know! Thank you. I’ll have to collect all our saw dust and use it as mulch to keep the weeds and grass out. Definitely am struggling with that so I hope it works!

[@ryankolodziej6732]

Mulch of any kind will work. Glad you found this video helpful.

[@linmal2242]

Yes, my uncle the ginger grower in Qld. use to cover his ginger plot(acre) in hardwood sawdust inches deep which the ginger root grew into so kept the tubers very clean. Of course the roots went deep and into the good red earth !

[@ForeverFalling153]

Wow! Thanks for your video. I especially enjoyed where you showed each rhubarb plant .

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thank you for watching!

[@Backyardfuzzybee]

Awsome video!

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thank you!!! Glad you liked it!

[@artworld9799]

Amazing nature and animals🐵🐔🐶🐷 Very beautiful and peaceful video 💙💚🌿 Greetings dear friend👍💐

[@ryankolodziej6732]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@Haidersdiygardening]

Rhubarb look healthy

[@ryankolodziej6732]

Thanks!

[@janew5351]

I am interested in your 8 inch hardwood sawdust mulch. Could that include walnut sawdust?

[@ryankolodziej6732]

I don't have experience using walnut sawdust as mulch.

[@jamesreid8638]

​@@ryankolodziej6732i wouldn't recommend use of mulch containing Black walnut (juglans nigra), but have not noted allelopathy with the Carpathian or English walnuts or butternut (sometimes also called "white walnut").

[@sdthyng]

I noticed you don't bother to cut off your flower stalks so that the plants will put more energy into growing edible stalks - why not?

[@ryankolodziej6732]

I actually don't see any evidence in the field to support the early removal of the seed heads. My observations are that pulling the bolted stalks disrupts the surrounding stalks causing damage and wilting. We get a very uniform recovery by picking the entire plant including the bolts all at the same time. Like timing harvest of other plants with flowering. I believe that the 1st seasonal picking of your rhubarb should coincide with the flowering. Ideally sometime during the bloom but before it goes to seed.

[@sdthyng]

@@ryankolodziej6732 That is a very interesting observation. Most home growing videos strongly advise cutting out the flower stalk as soon as it appears. I will try both methods to see which works best for me.

[@georgeingridirwin6180]

​@@ryankolodziej6732 WOW I never heard this before. I just cut off the flowers, but also harvested the stalks that were ready. Last year I did the same thing, ended up with 3 harvests of stalks. I don't harvest the whole planet. But this year I have to divide some of the plants.

[@robertwren8878]

Your growing rhubarb not flowers the energy is going into producing seed not stalks as with any plant! Remove the flower head as soon as it appears,then more stalks push up to try to produce seeds then you get more rhubarb and keep it watered and fed using rainwater. If you let it produce seed the plant is finished because it needs to store as much from the plant at the end of the season for next years crop so just take from it what you need,the bigger the leaves and stalks the more energy will be stored for the following year!

[@bierbrauer11]

I love rhubarb and have a couple of plants, didn’t really know how to deal with them. Thanks for sharing this!

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.

[@wendyburston3132]

Thank you. Very informative.

[@RussWilson]

Awesome video!!!! Could you use softwood sawdust instead of hardwood sawdust? I have tons of softwood mills around me.

[@ryankolodziej6732]

Around plants is fine with pine. But not directly on top.

[@RussWilson]

@@ryankolodziej6732 Thank You

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Great content. I've divided & sold rhubarb crowns (different patches each year). I also started a lot from saved seed from old homesteads. Year 1: seeded in pots, year 2: nursery bed & then that autumn, sell as young crowns or plant in permanant (fence row) location.

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Everyone should have Rhubarb!

[@BrookerD2]

Fertilizer?

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Wood chips or sawdust work great. They keep weeds down and hold moisture as well as providing fertilizer. We apply more wood chips or mulch every 5 years. Thanks for the question!

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I enjoyed this! You grow a lot of rhubarb! Three big plants give my wife and I enough for the whole year. What is the best time to divide rhubarb?

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thank you for watching! Early spring is best. But anytime will work with temporary shade.

[@faithgriggs1068]

What time of the year is best for dividing rhubarb?

[@epicnaturellc1255]

As soon as the ground thaws. But it will be ok anytime with the right care.

[@elainestika5076]

Do you sell starter rhubarb? What variety do you use?

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Yes. Victoria

[@georgeingridirwin6180]

I guess youve never had to use a rhubarb "forcer". I'm considering using something like them. Just not sure it's necessary. What are your thoughts on these??

[@epicnaturellc1255]

I doubt that I will ever force my rhubarb. No reason really. It comes in just fine all on its own just need to make sure it gets picked young

[@georgeingridirwin6180]

@@epicnaturellc1255 thanks. Then I won't bother.

[@sunshinedayz2172]

Is this Victoria rhubarb?

[@jamesreid8638]

This plant roots very easily from even a single talk peeled off of the crown, and i have seen a decent root system on a single complete stalk in only a few weeks when the cuttings are rooted in a pasteurized 50/50 mix of sand and vermiculite. Plants rooted this way may take jp to two years to begin bountiful production.

[@kendexter]

They grows best when doing nothing to them.. i got my farm full of them below the barn..huge huge as skyscrapers..i never pick them because i don`t like them

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Interesting. Below the barn you say? Tell me more. What else is growing Below the barn?

[@channelname575]

Good practical info. I appreciate that you aren't a California Suburb back yard froo froo Gardener. Voices like yours are needed.Ie how you separated the Crowns. Many KZbinrs slice a big crown with a shovel. Your way makes much more sense.

[@epicnaturellc1255]

Thank you for the positive feedback!

[@linmal2242]

Do not consume too much rhubarb as it contains oxalic acid which can be bad ! NEVER the leaves !