Re: Dig and divide -Reply
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- Subject: Re: Dig and divide -Reply
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:04:53 -0600 (MDT)
JANA BONE wrote:
>
> >Is there an easier way to get those huge
> >rhizomes out of the ground without too much
> >damage? As I was working this evening I was
> >comtemplating dynamite. I can get a spade in
> >the ground around the edges but when I try
> >to pry some of the plants out the only way that
> >I can get them to let go is to cut off a bunch
> >with spade.
> >
> >Bob Pindell
> >in the Eastern Suburbs of Cleveland Ohio
> >Zone 4 with a lot of snow in the winter
>
> Hey Bob,
> This may have already tried this but........how
> about trying a digging fork. After watching
> someone else use a pitch fork to dig up a few
> clumps, I knew I had to have one. I tried it out
> this weekend and it was so much better than
> using a shovel (like I used to do) - especially in
> our clay soil. And I didn't loose a single
> rhizome!
>
> Jana Bone
> Austin, TX Zone 8
>
Yes to the pitch fork. Sometimes I have had to use a pick axe to get it
started because the rocks imbed themselves so deeply in the roots. Or
is it that the roots entagle themselves around the rocks? Or--------.
Never mind.
Rima terra@catskill.net
upstate ny zone 4
