rhubarb

 

can anyone advise me of a suitable compost/fertiliser for rhubarb.  My wife
will not let me put down dung as the rhubarb pastch is near her kitchen
window.  The rhubarb is 2 years old but can I think do with some feeding.
Thank you.

 

Get some mushroom compost.

 

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:24:00 -0000, "Stewart"


Unless you're going strictly organic, a cup of 10-10-10 fertilizer
sprinkled in a circle around each plant in the spring will work well.
If you use compost, be sure you don't cover the plant's crown or it
will rot.

Ross.

 

Stewart wrote:

Home grown or commercial (eg spent mushroom) compost is good.

Have you tried to age your manure away from the house before applying it?  I
mainly use horse (but the same applies to cow and other herbivorous mammals)
and after a couple of month it smells clean and earthy, you would have to
have a very delicate nose or be caught on the *concept* that manure is
"dirty" to object to it.

David

 


I'm of the view that anything that is going to produce good rhubarb I'd want
to eat might just be a bit on the pongy side, but then I don't object to the
pong of manure of blood and bone but I do object to the pong of chemical
fertilisers.

chemical ferts make my nose itch and stink and all animal manures do is to
produce a sense of satisfaction in feeding the garden and then I also like
feeding people, gardens and animals.