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Turning Green Rhubarb Red

by Dana Van Hoesen
(Gays Mills WI USA)

Reading the different complaints about green rhubarb and noticing that most of the "experts" didn't have an answer, I would like to share a sure thing to correct this common problem.

Take wood ashes and put them around the rhubarb plants. The large leaves tend to fall and make the soil too acid and putting wood ashes corrects this. The stalks will turn a beautiful crimson the next spring.

Dana Van Hoesen, Gays Mills WI USA bobdana@mwt.net


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Turning Green Rhubarb Red

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by: Debbie

I have looked everywhere for an answer to this problem. I used to have beautiful red rhubarb, but it has turned mostly green now. We always let the large leaves die off and rot on the ground around the plants, but no more. We'll try the wood ashes and see what happens. Thanks for this great advice!
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by: Anonymous

Thank you so much. I have a plant that has gotten very large and until this year always produced lovely red stalks but this year they are green and I couldn't understand why. now i know. Thank you so much.

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