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25 October 20264 min read

Planting rhubarb: give the crown room before you harvest

Choose a lasting position for this perennial, then let the crown establish before picking stems. Leave the first year unharvested, pick lightly in the second and never eat the leaves.

Planting
Vegetable garden
Rhubarb

Turn the reading into a garden.

Marmanda turns this advice into a dated, placed plan for your own plot.

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