Has anyone tried (and been successful) in growing rhubarb and/or angelica in the Houston area? I'd really love to grow these plants, but the several times I've tried, I haven't had any luck. (I've tried them in full sun, part sun, full shade, in-ground, in containers, etc.)
If anyone is currently growing either or both of these great plants, please let me know your secrets!
Thanks for your help!
Rhubarb? Angelica? Any luck growing in Houston area?
I don't grow either one, but I did find some information on growing rhubarb in Texas as an annual rather than trying to growing it as a perennial.
http://www.texasgardener.com/pastissues/julaug03/rhubarb.html
http://www.aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/travis/docs/Rhubarb_Tx_Style.pdf
betty - thank you SO much for posting these links! I'm trying to wrap my mind around rhubarb being an annual, because it's always been my experience that rhubarb shouldn't be pulled the first year or two (up north). I guess it's too late this year to attempt to grow any rhubarb, but you can be sure I'll be prepared for it next year! :)
Excellent ~ I will gladly follow your successes and if you need, can provide some rhubarb recipes! LOL When we go 'home' for vacation, family members will always see to it that I get to eat some rhubarb. I do like it.
I know that rhubarb can be grown successfully here. Several years ago, an elderly friend told me he was going to grow it. I told him it wasn't growable here, and that I would personally make him rhubarb pie, crisp, whatever he wanted if he was successful. I was sure he wouldn't be. One spring day he walked in with a large paper sack full of rhubarb and a big grin on his face. He even let me have some to make my own pie.
I tried to grow it one year, but something nibbled the young plants down to the ground. I was surprised because the leaves are poisonous - at least to humans. I'll have to give it another try next year, too.
I was just at Bob Wells Nursery last weekend and we talked about this very thing and he said to grow it in the shade so it survives or you can grow it as an annual
We grow it as a winter annual here - in the sun.
mmm yummy Rhubarb in the winter.....my folks will be here Friday so I am hoping to get mom over to Bob Wells to get some and get it planted. I love the stuff ...sauce, pies jams but DH says yuck...he just doesn't' realize what he is missing LOL
ceejay if I lived closer or was visiting my daughter in Humble I would ask to get some from you to fix up to have when my folks get here :)
But I don't have any - yet - Mibus. Sorry. And we would harvest it in the spring. Double sorry.
no need to be sorry I have no idea when I would be down that way anyway