[Kagganz]

Please ............and also if I bought a crown (is that the correct term?) of rhubarb this year or early next, whenever they are available, would I get rhubarb growing next year or do I have to wait 2 years to be eating it?

I think Rhubarb likes shady areas but I have a few shady spaces so would like to know of other stuff I could sow.


Thanks muchly all xx

[Kagganz]

GROES !!!!!!   Grows sorry :oops:

[Kagganz]

Whimpers quietly in the naughty corner  :cry:

[noshed]

It's all sorted now.
I'm not sure about new rhubarb. I think you're supposed to leave it a year to establish before pulling stalks. But if you cadge a bit off a fellow allotmenteer you're likely to get a big clump which will probably big enough to pull next year. When you plant it put a load of good compost in the hole and mulch it well with some more so it grows away well in the spring.
Lettuce and other leafy things are happier in the shade in the summer. But I've grown broad beans succesfully in my shady bed as well.

[Kagganz]

         Ta x