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The rhubarb patch
From this
Filling new tyres ( 150cm in diameter, if you’re not sure how big they look in the photos)
Rhubarb split into 9 and placed ready for planting.
Old tyre emptied, moved, weed fabric put down, tyre put back and filled with fresh. Planted up with a rescue rhubarb (been living in 3” of soil in the bottom of a fish box for at least 2 years.).
Put windbreak around all tyres.
Finally looks like this
They will be even more protected when the big tunnel gets moved.
No rhubarb this year. But next year I should have quite the harvest. Hopefully.
It’s been quite a lot of work. With levelling the ground, getting the tyres, getting the 6 buckets of gravel for the drainage in the base and the countless number of wheelbarrow loads of top soil/ manure mix (all pushed up hill). I’m probably a bit late in splitting the rhubarb, but it’s needed doing for the last 5 years. I wasn’t going to put it off again.
From this
Filling new tyres ( 150cm in diameter, if you’re not sure how big they look in the photos)
Rhubarb split into 9 and placed ready for planting.
Old tyre emptied, moved, weed fabric put down, tyre put back and filled with fresh. Planted up with a rescue rhubarb (been living in 3” of soil in the bottom of a fish box for at least 2 years.).
Put windbreak around all tyres.
Finally looks like this
They will be even more protected when the big tunnel gets moved.
No rhubarb this year. But next year I should have quite the harvest. Hopefully.
It’s been quite a lot of work. With levelling the ground, getting the tyres, getting the 6 buckets of gravel for the drainage in the base and the countless number of wheelbarrow loads of top soil/ manure mix (all pushed up hill). I’m probably a bit late in splitting the rhubarb, but it’s needed doing for the last 5 years. I wasn’t going to put it off again.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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