Rhubarb ( Rheum rhabarbarum ) is one of those plant that commonly sit relatively undisturbed in the street corner of the garden for years , perhaps occasionally piddle it to the tabular array in the form ofpiesor crumbles — that is , whensweet berriesthat offset its tangy flavor are also in season .
Despite its luxuriant foliage , bluff stalks and towering , long - lasting blossoms , this plant is a neglected repeated vegetable and is rarely considered to be an ornamental add-on to the landscape . However , because rhubarb plant is as gorgeous a ground cover as it is an first-class manufacturer of calories and biomass , it should be consider a candidate for larger plantings in garden both edible and ornamental .
Left to its own equipment , a rhubarb plant plant will slowly colonise an area within a limited range . As it becomes old and more instal , it will bloom more ofttimes in an attempt to produce seedling offspring . An older pieplant plant life that flowers often is a ripe candidate for division — making one gravid plant into several small ones can result in vigorous renew increase and an attractive mass planting . Lynsey Grosfield
Last yr , I divided a single 20 - year - old industrial plant into 12 new clumps , and the new root growth on each plane section was nothing short of awful . Formerly limited to exposit easy in one commission , the divisions I plant rapidly started charge large rootstock every which way . Lynsey Grosfield
All that is really needed for disunite a rhubarb plot of land is a unmarried “ eye”—or potential leaf — with a flake of root bond . Lynsey Grosfield
But the muscularity of the plant and readiness for next year ’s harvest depends on incisively how many eye and roots are re - planted together . For an uninterrupted supply of rhubarb , take divisions with five or more eyes instead .
Lynsey Grosfield
In either case , a single rhubarb older works can become a patch in no time . Lynsey Grosfield
In mass plantings , the broad foliage give an almost jungle - similar effect , all while hold competitor plants at true laurel by shading them out . A rhubarb patch leave enough for a couple of pies , duplicate for the neighbor and plenty to add to the compost as biomass to nourish other plants .
Lynsey Grosfield
Lynsey Grosfield
Lynsey Grosfield
Lynsey Grosfield
