Re: CULT: shaved rhizomes?

Rick Tasco/Roger Duncan wrote:
> Here in CA we usually plant our rhizomes under the soil due to our hot
> sun,  the soil just barely covering the rhizome.  ....
> This method may not work in all climates.

Thanks Rick.  So Walter Moores, is this what you do in soggy humid
Mississippi, or do you use rocks?  If you bury them, how much soil do
you put on top of the rhizome?  

It has just occurred to me that if I planted them with the rhizome at an
angle (the cut end deeper than the fan end) they might stay put better. 
Would this work?

I am learning that depth of planting doesn't seem to matter much here. 
I covered a lot of rhizomes with about a half inch of gravelly soil last
year as an experiment and with the confounding (or maybe I should say
confounded!) variability of weather, I don't know whether it made any
difference or not.

Linda Mann lmann@icx.net
east Tennessee USA
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