Re: CULT: digging/dividing times

In a message dated 6/15/00 5:06:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<<  In hotter parts of the country, it is not wise to divide right after 
 bloom time because of the onset of heat and humidity in May. If 
 planted in the open in the sun where I live, the plants just sit and 
 sulk.  The soil temperature is too high for new roots to grow.  Many 
 plants will be lost as a result.>>

They can apparently cook, too! I did some dividing once and the weather 
turned extremely hot unexpectedly and I had one cook. I looked at the bed two 
days later and one neatly trimmed fan was drooped over the rhizome, bent 
right over at the base. Now, I knew that rhizome had been fine so I went to 
look at it and pulled it up and it was soft, not mushy, but not right either. 
I broke it open and it was a curious light grey and the texture had changed. 
The only possible explanation is that the sun fell just so on it for several 
hours when we were 98 degrees and cooked it. And this was not some wimpy 
thing either, we are talking about a rhizome of HELEN COLLINGWOOD for 
heavens' sake, one of the most vigorous and adaptable TBs of the century, 
just roasted like a 'tatie.

Anner, in Virginia
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