After vacation salvage

I was recently out of town for about 3 weeks to attend my new grandson's birth.
   
  In the meantime here in upstate NY, it seems to have rained a lot.... continuing a very rainy summer.  Right at a time that it normally turns hot and dry here.
   
  I came home to beds grossly overgrown with nettles (yuck) and snails running amok.  I'm certain you can imagine the rhizome rot.
   
  Is the best hope for salvage to lift the rhizomes, cut them back to clean material, dry them then replant ?  
   
  Is there something I should treat the cut back rhizome in ?
   
  Is there something I can do to clean the soil in the area from which they were lifted ??  Those areas have never ever been a problem before....
   
  Thanks to all you pros out there... Without this help I am going to lose some favorites and some varieties that are new to me, like Sea Power
   
  -Beth


"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of innocent beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love" -Pythagorus 

 	      
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