Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jazzbyrd on April 12, 2010, 20:47
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I would like to grow some rhubarb. Can it be grown in a large barrel or a 80L dustbin?
Jazz
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It can as long as you dig it up and repot every 5 years or so.
You will have to give it LOADS of feed and MASSES of water too.
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and MASSES of water too.
I've successfully grown rhubarb in big pots and they look really spectacular on the patio with their big leaves and bright red stalks, but yes, I'd agree about the watering especially in summer - many a day I've come home from work to find the plants wilted and at risk of dying of thirst. Rhubarb roots can get big and quickly fill the pot and .... :ohmy: will dive down through the drainage holes of the pot into the soil/through cracks of the paving stones!
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get yourself a skip bag or a 1tonne sand bag from a builder merchants and whack it in that
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I dont know that you could transplant an existing well established plant, they have an extensive root system and even if you could get one up in one piece with a mechanical digger perhaps, i dont know what you could fit it into. I think you need to find one that is already in a container.
Hi , does anyone have a great rhubarb plant that has been grown in a large container or pot. I am a designer working on a new RHS gardening book and i need to photograph one with a child watering it. we would like to transport it to Capel Manor hoticultural college in Gunnersbury, South Acton , London. PLease contact me if you can help or if you have a large plant that you would be happy with us lifting and transplanting into a large container. I am based in London so anywhere in the greater London area would be best but other areas considered. I need to do this i July 2010.
Fingers crossed that someone can help
many Thanks Sonia