Hilarious.
I’ve never grown rhubarb. Maybe because of a family legend . . .
"My mother raised canaries when I was a very small child. (I’ve loved birds ever since.)
One time, when my parents went on a vacation and left my teenaged sister in charge of the canaries . . . she decided to have friends over to ‘help’. They all thought is would be nice to feed the birds some fresh greens from the garden."
(You can imagine the rest.)
My mother returned to cages of dead canaries.
No coal mines involved.
I’ll post some fall rhubarb I planted in the last two years. I have a good amount of Spring and early Summer rhubarb that I get from two Canadian Red plantings. Two years ago I got Kanga
Rhubarb from a well known mail order company. Then last year I picked up some other variety that was said to be produce well in the Fall. I had gotten interested in Fall varieties when I read about Livingstone variety in the UK. I looked around for it in the US for a while. But I haven’t found it. I think it is available in Canada. The Kanga Rhubarb was slow to increase in size but is doing pretty well. The other variety I planted this year and it is quite large. I watered it pretty regularly in the Summer and haven’t even glanced in its direction until today. It is very large for a brand new planting. I’m going to pick a bit of this one just to get a taste of it. The larger one was in a planter with lots of manure. Where the smaller one that has been in the ground for two years was just directly planted in the ground a couple feet from asparagus and the back of the garden with grass a foot away. So certainly the location and soil could be the main reason for the difference in growth. I’ll post pictures when the I have them loaded on my computer.
Does anyone else have Fall specific varieties of rhubarb?
my Canada red came back in late summer this year due to all the rain we had. usually, it goes dormant and looks half dead beginning in Aug. not as productive as in spring but i dont fertilize it in the summer. maybe i should start.
It was hot and dry here this year. I was content to pick Carmine Jewel cherries. I don’t see any sign of Canada Red today. I do expect it will be back next year.