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  • Can rhubarb leaves be composted?

    I know it seems a daft question, but seem to remember reading that the toxins in the leave made it unsuitable. Maybe I'm making it up.

  • #2
    As far as I know you can compost rhubarb leaves LD. you can also make a home made aphicide from them, but we're not allowed to tell you by law cos it doesn't comply with eec regulations
    Last edited by nick the grief; 27-04-2006, 06:19 PM.
    ntg
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    • #3
      so... Nick..remind me where' the scum of society' would have to look for those details so I can recommend to LJ NOT....to google it!!!!?
      Oh ...yes...we compost the leaves in summer and I recall someone on ??Gardener's World? who grew rhubarb specifically to compost it!! Still alive to tell you about it.!
      Has anyone seen a book titled '101 things to do with rhubarb' ??? if not maybe we should compile one ??
      Last edited by Nicos; 27-04-2006, 06:49 PM.
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

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      • #4
        I honestly can't remember Nicos. but I bet if you were to google long & pink ... NO DON'T I WAS JOKING!!! Seriously, try googling for rhubarb leaves or something & see if a Non-EEC site hass the info in the mean time I look in my books
        ntg
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        Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
        A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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        • #5
          Thanks all.
          as a side issue "Carrots love tomatoes and roses love garlic" by Louse Riotte is an American book and may not be suject to EEC rules, so I would reccomend their entry on rhubarb but not for info on composting the leaves obviously.

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          • #6
            As soon as I take the leaves off my Rhubarb stalks I pop them under the un picked leaves on the crown. I was told that Rhubarb is cannibalistic in nature and benefits from it's own leaves rotting down.

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            • #7
              I always compost my rhubarb leaves - I think it's similar to potato peelings uncooked are poisonous to animals but they are still composted or cooked and fed back to the chooks, I think tomato plants are the same
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              • #8
                I wondered about rhubarb leaves as well but have been told that it's O.K. to compost them as the toxins break down eventually. I only found out a few years ago that you shouldn't eat rhubarb raw but it never seemed to do me any harm when I was small- we used to live next to a farm & my best friend & I used to sneak to the edge of the field with a cup of sugar & pinch a stick of rhubarb to dip in it & eat!I must have been more hardy then as now I can't eat anything that's likely to upset the stomach!
                Into every life a little rain must fall.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by SueA
                  with a cup of sugar & pinch a stick of rhubarb to dip in it & eat! D
                  Best way to eat it SueA!!! I used to do this at my grandma's & I turned out Normal
                  ntg
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                  Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
                  A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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                  • #10
                    You think so????!!!
                    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                    Location....Normandy France

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                    • #11
                      Nicos
                      The poor soul is labouring under the illusion that he is "normal" and it's everyone else who's a fruit loop - just humour him and maybe he'll keep relatively calm and placid. So long as he keeps taking the tablets, we'll be okay
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                      • #12
                        I know I'm normal, my invisible friend just told me so
                        ntg
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                        Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
                        A large group of professionals built the Titanic
                        ==================================================

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                        • #13
                          Would that be the Invisible friend who knocks around with Harvey, the 6ft white rabbit, or is this another invisible friend ?
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                          • #14
                            No thats the one, do you know him as well
                            ntg
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                            Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
                            A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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                            • #15
                              Think he used to go out with my wee sister
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