Re: route of least pain...
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- Subject: Re: route of least pain...
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:44:20 -0600 (MDT)
> What would be the route of least pain in digging up, oh, about 40
> clumps that have aged welllllllll beyond 3 years. Like 5 or 7 years.
> Does a "garden claw" or ground mutilator of some sort get the job done
> efficiently? I don't want to break my back lifting 800 pound rhizomes.
> (Some of them are that big! Well, not really. But it makes a good
> story! ;-)
Rusty,
The easiest thing to do would be to hire someone else to dig them up
while you supervise. (-; We use a garden fork. Carefully work ALL the
way around the clump with the garden fork and you should feel it
starting to lift. Once I get a big puppy like that lifted out of the
hole I give it a few experimental flexes to see if the clump will break
apart on its own. Most will. If not then I take a sharp butcher knife
and start in on the clump. I find a little hole I can get the knife in
and cut my way to the edge of the clump. You will lose a few rz this
way but if your clump is that big then so be it. Once you have a clump
split like this then you can usually muscle the clump apart by pulling
the edges apart. I suggest that if your soil has not been rained on
within a week or so that you water lightly. You don't want it muddy but
you don't want it rock hard either. If you need training in this feel
free to come on up to Lubbock and I will provide all the OJT that you
can stand. (-:
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
