How To Plant Rhubarb Plants

Care is easy, and once you get it started, you'll have year after year of gorgeous pink and green color for your garden with this impressive ornamental rhubarb.Growing Himalayan rhubarb is not difficult and requires little maintenance.

To reduce moisture loss, trim off all leaves. Like the other biennial vegetables listed below, carrots bloom at a time in late spring when nectar plants are in short supply, usually after spring-flowering trees and shrubs, but before summer annuals.

To outwit weeds you'll need to wage a concerted campaign on several fronts, but it can be done, and without resorting to weedkillers. Sheets of cardboard can be used to kill off persistent weeds Perennial weeds with deep or spreading roots, including...

Best of all, mulch can be made – for free! – in your own garden. The best solution, if you have enough room in a sheltered spot, is to spread out the clippings on a hard surface and dry them out for a few days.

Raised Beds for a Sloping Vegetable Garden Building a terraced vegetable garden is basically making raised beds on a slope, and it's important to start at the bottom and work your way up.

Cool-season Cover Crops Parts of the garden that won't be planted until late spring are prime spots for growing cool-season cover crops , also known as green manures because they are grown to benefit the soil.

Tomatoes, for example, need a minimum temperature of 10°C (50°F) to fully develop. To do this, plunge a spade into the ground about 25cm (10in) away from the central stem. Simply pop the fruit(s) into a paper bag then loosely close it at the top.

This is healthier for the tree, unless there is a recurring issue with silver leaf or other diseases. Bacterial Canker in Plum Trees Bacterial canker is another serious disease that affects plums and other trees of the same plant family ( Prunus ).

Well, after plenty of careful nurturing and a recent run of fine, warm weather, I'm delighted to say my first chilies are ready for picking. The fruits can be picked as soon as the seeds inside have matured, when they will have turned from small and white...

Mulching to Keep Soil Cool and Moist Mulches are a must during any summer drought, and a mulch of organic material such as compost, leaf mold or even dried grass clippings is best.

You can save your own seed potatoes for second cropping by keeping some of your spring seeds back. Set the seeds onto a layer of compost or potting soil about 10cm (4in) deep, or deeper if your container is particularly tall.

For larger cooking apples you're looking for around 6-9 inches (15-23cm) between fruits. I'm using a sharp pair of pruners for the job, but if the fruits are really close to each other you may find it easier to use scissors to get in between them.

You can buy sticky traps, or make your own. You can buy them on cards primed with ready-to-hatch pupae to hang up near infected plants. The whitefly larvae are still alive at this point and it's only when the parasite is almost ready to hatch out as an...

Feeding plants costs money but does mean more fruits of better quality, so the investment is well worth it. In cooler climates, now may be the time to wash off or remove any greenhouse shading, to trap more of the late summer sunshine.

In very extreme cases, if all else fails, use certified organic pest control products. Share it with us by leaving a comment below. For more targeted protection, cabbage collars are used to prevent cabbage root flies from laying their eggs.

In a traditional crop rotation cabbages follow on from peas or beans, which naturally lock nitrogen away at their roots. Thin the seedlings once they're up to one every couple of inches (5cm).

They contribute to light pollution and diminish our ability to admire nature's light show, the stars. Hang them around outdoor eating areas to extend your enjoyment of the garden long after the sun has dipped beneath the horizon.

Then factor in that daikons are a pickler's dream, whether you ferment them in a salt brine or turn them into spicy Vietnamese-style refrigerator pickles. Watermelon radishes have stiff, serrated leaves that resemble those of turnip, and the only tricks...

Label each bag with the date and details of what's inside – you'll quickly forget and it can be hard to identify frozen produce through the haze of ice crystals. One of my favorites deals with that glut goliath, the zucchini.

Pests tend to leave rutabagas alone when more tender cabbage or kale are present, in part because rutabaga leaves are studded with prickly hairs. Rutabaga sprouts are loaded with antioxidants.

The seed heads are definitely ready once they have dried out and can be flaked off into a bag for cleaning and sorting. If they are black then you are good to go. You've sown it, grown it and harvested it.

Florida's heat and humidity bothered them not in the least. The smaller cultivars are great in containers and will brighten any spot. A solid mass of bright yellow blossoms brightened the red brick planter and wall behind it.

You read that right. You know – rebellious as in bucking good ol' fashioned gardening advice because, well, just because. I was a bit sassy with mythis year. However, you may or may not have the opportunity to harvest your own seeds because your rhubarb...

Cut the crown into at least four pieces, making sure each one has several “eyes” or growth nodes.Replant the pieces and watch them produce new healthy plants. Then move the crowns inside where the crown will warm up.Put the pots in a dark area and...

You may even discover that green varieties of rhubarb are surprisingly sweet, and tend to be more productive! Read on to learn more about a few of the many types of rhubarb.Here are some popular varieties of rhubarb for the garden:If you prefer red rhubarb...

What's bare root rhubarb? , but bare root rhubarb plants are another popular option for propagation. Rhubarb thrives in fertile, well-draining soil with a pH of between 5.5 and 7.0. If planting more than one bare root rhubarb, allow at least 3 feet (.9...

Rhubarb plants die back over winter, leaving firm, pink, cone-shaped buds that protrude slightly from the soil and a large, heavy root ball. Dig a hole in a full-sun site for a rhubarb root section, twice as wide as the root section and 1 to 2 inches...