Took some time today to plant a perennial vegetable, Rhubarb, in our Hugelkultur garden beds.
The cool thing about perennial vegetables like rhubarb is that you put them in the ground once and they produce for you for many years. It's quite appealing to someone like myself that is trying to live more of a sustainable lifestyle!
There were Three rhubarb Roots per package. They look pretty good some of them were even starting to sprout in the bag.
Let the roots sit in a bucket of water while I was digging spots for them in the Hugelkultur Mounds. They were a little shriveled so we wanted to rehydrate them before putting them in the ground.
While the roots were soaking in the bucket of water I was picking out spots on the Hugelkultur beds and digging holes big enough to put the roots in. Was very pleased with the amount of earthworms I found in the beds!
After getting all the holes dug The Next Step was to put the rhubarb roots in the soil. Made sure to make the holes big enough so that when the rhubarb plant shoots out new Roots it has soft soil to go through.
When planting Roots like these make sure to leave the tip of the plant sticking out of the ground.
Last but not least put some sort of mulch over the plant. I will be coming through tomorrow and putting half decomposed leaves on all three of my Hugelkultur beds.
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