Our Little Rhubarb Patch Has Been Transplanted, Finally

Friday, May 6th, 2011 at 8:08 am

Image by cafemama via Flickr

Mother Nature didn’t seem to want to let us get out in the yard to clean up after this past winter half destroyed our property. The yard never had a chance to drain from all the rain before it would rain again.

Okay she didn’t actually destroy half our property but there is a lot of damage to our property fence, shubs and bushes. We also had a lot of branches break of our Maple trees due to all the ice and snow this year.

I guess she’s going to give us a bit of break as this week has been ideal for drying up the yard so I did manage to get a section of our rhubarb patch moved to the south side of our yard. Now we have two patches.

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The Old Rhubarb Home

When I dug the hole where we want our new rhubarb patch it almost immediately filled to more than half way up the hole. It only took about 5 minutes and it didn’t drain for days. As it would drain about half way it would rain again.

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Come On – Drain

The soil in our yard is heavy clay that really holds water so once the rain stopped it still took three days to drain. But once it drained I added some of the great top soil and peat moss from our garden. Finally I was able to get the rhubarb back in the ground.

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A New Sunny Rhubarb Location

That entire process took about 4 days but if you take away all the time I waited for the hole to drain and actual time I worked it was all of 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes.

Our next transplanting will be to move some of our strawberries from our raised bed and I want to put a section on both sides of the rhubard patch.

Our goal with this new garden is to be able to have enough rhubarb and strawberries to make some pies and to try our hand at preserving some for the winter.