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RHUBARBLEAFMULCH

Now that it’s rhubarb season again, I thought you might be interested to see what I use the leaves for. Last year I successfully used them as a weed suppressing mulch under my gooseberry bushes, and am using them again this year. The photo is for the bed that I will be using to plant sweetcorn and pumpkins, so won’t be planted up until the latter part of May, so I have covered the bed in rhubarb leaves until then. The leaves don’t take long to break down, but keep the weeds down in the meantime, and you can even plant through them.