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NEPA roller46@hotmail.com KB3QKV

Last year I asked about our rhubarb and even posted pics. They were terrible looking. Well they did not sprout when everyone elses did. I gave up on them assuming that they did not survive whatever ailed them or the winter. They finally came up and I transplanted them to a drier part of the garden. Now two of them are growing wild. I hope the garden can contain them!!! The third one believe it or not, was found about 15 feet from where it was originally planted. It sprouted when I turned the soil over. I pulled it out thinking that it was a weed. We replanted it with the other two and it looks like it is going to make it. So thanks again to everyone that replied to me last year and to anyone that shows curiosity to this plant. Ever hear of anything like this?

4/25/2007 8:16:16 PM

Bethlehem CT

I Have never seen or heard of rhubarb moving across the garden. Is it possible that a chunk of root was moved when you roto tilled. I have also never seen rhubarb make any seedlings. So I really don't know how it could have got to its new location. Are you absolutely positive it is rhubarb? A young burdock plant can look very similar to rhubarb.

4/30/2007 7:08:46 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Rhubarb does go to seed if allowed.

4/30/2007 7:48:19 AM

NEPA roller46@hotmail.com KB3QKV

Yes it is rhubarb, it is growing now. Big moon, I never rototilled where the rhubarb was placed initially. Never touched after the rhubarb was planted. Shannon that is possible but I don't remember any of them ever growing enough to go to seed. Is it possible that an animal dug it up sometime and decided that it did not like the taste and dropped it there? It could have gone to seed even though it did not grow very much I guess. Anything is possible.

5/1/2007 9:43:18 AM