Surviving Minnesota!

[R2elk]

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I used to have a Victoria Rhubarb plant that big. Had to dig it up in 4 pieces when I gave it away.

 

[duluthralphie]

I used to have a Victoria Rhubarb plant that big. Had to dig it up in 4 pieces when I gave it away.

I picked that picture off the Internet as it was too late to go get one here....and again while I have good rhubarb mine is not like that in this sand....

 

[Cebarmlds]

I used to have a Victoria Rhubarb plant that big. Had to dig it up in 4 pieces when I gave it away.

Why did you give it away

 

[MNChickMom]

I am digging through my archives to find the "elephant Ear". It grows to be 8-9 feet tall. (As tall as the side walls of the barn.) The roots are more of a tube than a root. This spring I had my husband dig them out with a skid loader, then skid loader slid into the barn causing a small tear/rip in the new siding. We have tried killing with a professional strength Round Up but of course the tubers under ground were not touched. Below is an internet picture of the leaves.

 

[ketojenn]

I am digging through my archives to find the "elephant Ear". It grows to be 8-9 feet tall. (As tall as the side walls of the barn.) The roots are more of a tube than a root. This spring I had my husband dig them out with a skid loader, then skid loader slid into the barn causing a small tear/rip in the new siding. We have tried killing with a professional strength Round Up but of course the tubers under ground were not touched. Below is an internet picture of the leaves.
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Wow, I didn't know those were Hardy up north.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I am digging through my archives to find the "elephant Ear". It grows to be 8-9 feet tall. (As tall as the side walls of the barn.) The roots are more of a tube than a root. This spring I had my husband dig them out with a skid loader, then skid loader slid into the barn causing a small tear/rip in the new siding. We have tried killing with a professional strength Round Up but of course the tubers under ground were not touched. Below is an internet picture of the leaves.
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They don't look like this?

 

[R2elk]

Why did you give it away

I prefer a red rhubarb and irregardless of the many internet photos that imply Victoria is red, it is a green rhubarb. My other rhubarb plants have never bloomed and my Victoria plants would start blooming right away. The bees loved the blossoms so I let them be that first year. Later that year I had rhubarb plants coming up all over the garden. I posted a craigslist ad and gave away over 100 rhubarb seedlings that year and at least another 20 the next spring from the ones that I had previously overlooked.

Right now I have seedlings of Holstein Rhubarb which are said to have the reddest stalks.

 

[MNChickMom]

Wow, I didn't know those were Hardy up north.

They have been quite the adventure to try to kill. We are not even certain with 100% certainty that they are Elephant Ear, we bought the homestead from Corey's grandparents and this is what grandpa said they were.....but they were inherited.

They don't look like this?
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No the roots are tubes.

I wish I didn't have to test chickens last night, I would have dug some small ones up to show you .

 

[I Love Layers]

I have 2 broodies sitting on two seperate batches of eggs, one hatches this week Thursday, the other next week Thursday. I moved the broodies to the brooder room on Sunday, everything was going good until last night when I checked on the birds around 7pm. Long story short a layer got in with the broody who's eggs hatch tomorrow and ended up breaking off the whole top of one egg and that whole piece of shell was pulled off(this egg is pictured below), the layer also made a very large crack in another egg. I'm 90% sure both the chicks are still alive. So I brought the egg pictured below inside and it is now sitting in a whip cream dish with a cloth around it because if it lays on its side the chick starts to slide out.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have 2 broodies sitting on two seperate batches of eggs, one hatches this week Thursday, the other next week Thursday. I moved the broodies to the brooder room on Sunday, everything was going good until last night when I checked on the birds around 7pm. Long story short a layer got in with the broody who's eggs hatch tomorrow and ended up breaking off the whole top of one egg and that whole piece of shell was pulled off(this egg is pictured below), the layer also made a very large crack in another egg. I'm 90% sure both the chicks are still alive. So I brought the egg pictured below inside and it is now sitting in a whip cream dish with a cloth around it because if it lays on its side the chick starts to slide out.
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Good luck...