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  • patience0830

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    I have plastic fence around the garden. Sounds like you have a very nice garden. We have a garden, plants and landscaping in a wooded area around the house. Even some " deer resistant" plants were eaten, along with some beautiful rose bushes.

    You probably already know or are planning defenses. I put up some old Christmas lights on metal loop stakes to ward off the deer plant eating demons. It has worked. We will move larger items around such as the trash can or wheelbarrow to confuse and scare the deer off. Putting up some green plastic fencing here and there seems to work.

    The deer bed down and even birth in the bush honeysuckle near the house. My wife enjoys that but would eat the deer if I hunted them. Everything else that is a problem is trapped or rimfired.
    You need to kill every stick of that invasive bush honeysuckle,AKA autumn or Russian olive. Horrible stuff.
     

    tim87tr

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    Some new items I am excited about this year. Planted Blackberries, Rhubarb, Horseradish and Japanese Cucumbers. Bought some Japanese cucumbers last year at the farmers market and they made great pickles. Also it's the third year for the gooseberries and looks like with two bushes it will be enough for a full pie this year. Last year it was half rhubarb and yummy. Been able to eat some nice lettuce and kale already.

    For those that like rhubarb, Here's a great coffee cake type recipe. We used about a cup of cane sugar and Bob's Red Mill pastry flour.
     

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    bwframe

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    Anyone have a clue what is up with this rhubarb? This one plant and the adjacent others along this side of the barn seem to get a virus or something every year?

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    I cut a grocery bag of mustard greens yesterday and enough spinach for a couple more salads. I pulled up the radishes and thinned the carrots. Weeded out the peas. They are looking pretty good and starting up the fence. I lost some plants early due to little baby rabbits that could run through the slots in my welded wire fence. I tried that liquid fence, rabbit and deer repellant. It appears to have worked for me.
     

    spencer rifle

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    Asparagus about done, several cuttings of rhubarb already, peas progressing, hazelnut bushes flowering, nearby apple trees will have a big crop this year.

    Tomato, sweet potato, onion, zucchini, cucumber and pumpkin starts planted.

    Sweet corn, squash and bean seeds planted together.
     
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    bwframe

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    Crown rot. Check how it was planted.
    One of the common issues with rhubarb. The plants will survive but not thrive

    Thanks so much for the diagnosis!

    Wonder how to fix this? Or just write the plant off, pull it and start over?

    These plants along that wall maybe should not have lived at all? Too much shade? Too little soil vs the slab gravel for the barn?

    That said, three of the plants along that same wall seem fine. Although not as thick of stems as the plants around the corner that get full sun until 2:00 pm-ish.
     

    BigBoxaJunk

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    Thanks so much for the diagnosis!

    Wonder how to fix this? Or just write the plant off, pull it and start over?

    These plants along that wall maybe should not have lived at all? Too much shade? Too little soil vs the slab gravel for the barn?

    That said, three of the plants along that same wall seem fine. Although not as thick of stems as the plants around the corner that get full sun until 2:00 pm-ish.
    I had one some years ago that looked like yours, planted in the ground on the south side of my shed. It started off looking good, but then seemed to decline over a few years, getting smaller each year instead of bigger. When I had room in one of my raised beds, I dug it up early one spring and put it in and the plant immediately looked better. I'd read that rhubarb doesn't like "wet feet" and I figured that the raised bed provided a more well-drained site? I've divided that plant three times since then.
     

    snapping turtle

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    As above dig it up and examine the crown in the center of the plant. If it is crown rot it will be easy to see it. A combination of wet soil and planting the crown lower than the dirt line.

    I removed two large rotted roots in the center of mine. Removed them and one took off growing the original plant is doing well now.
     

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    As above dig it up and examine the crown in the center of the plant. If it is crown rot it will be easy to see it. A combination of wet soil and planting the crown lower than the dirt line.

    I removed two large rotted roots in the center of mine. Removed them and one took off growing the original plant is doing well now.

    I've killed a lot of rhubarb, trying to get it to grow where it's not happy.

    Think I can get away with moving/dividing this now? Or should wait until earlier next spring?
     

    snapping turtle

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    What you will end up with is the very small plant and a waist of growing season.

    I would examine the worst one and split it move it. Mine took right off after removing the rotted crown. Get the planting level correct and try again.
     
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