More Rhubarb

[Norm]

I'm confused about the rhubarb advice. I've just split and moved my crown for about the third time in ten years. In the past I've always used the rhubarb the following spring, but read advice that it shouldn't be used for 1 year from one viner to 3 years from another. WHY ????

[nick the grief]

Hi Norm,

Treat the transplants like new crown & give them a year to settle. Don't let them run to seed though as it will take up too much energy from the plant.

Then next year harvest them lightly at first then year 3 go for it.

[JennieAtkinson]

Hello Norm
My rhubarb is so vigorous I can dig it up and anything left still shoots. I pull it that same season, with no ill effects. Perhaps it depends on the type?

[Norm]

Thanks for the info good peeps. I'll play this one by ear, or sight, as the case may be. There again, at my age, with the bins getting thicker annually and the lugs getting selectively worse (usually when she-who-must-be-obeyed wants something) I'd best go by feel.