March 30, 2026
shrubs, vegetables, planting log, rhubarb | permalink
I picked up two rhubarb crowns from the expensive non-native garden center on my way back from dropping my daughter at pre-k today, and then planted them on the edge of where I'd spread yards of wood chips at the corner of the front meadow and the western woodland edge. Deer should leave them alone - supposedly - and they should spread. I'm hoping for a nice patch in a few years that I can maybe harvest enough to make some strawberry-rhubarb pies.
Just a few feet away from them, at the edge of the front meadow, I put in a couple of red osier dogwood cuttings. One was from MH's property, one from ours, and both had been sitting in water since mid February and developed some small roots.
Both were amended with a little bit of the mycorrhizal fungi I bought earlier this month.
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