{Disarmed} RE: Re: Transplanting

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Well Char, since you ask and it's transplanting time right now, I'll give you our version of how it's done. This year we found a source of really excellent weed-free compost so we are tilling this in to the growing areas to augment the sandy-silt soil we have. We also add a sprinkling of 10/10/10 general garden fertilizer before tilling. After that it's just a matter of splitting up older clumps into healthy divisions of 2-5 fans and setting them firmly with their crowns an inch or so below the surface. We water them in at once with a mixture of soluble fertilizer (20/20/20, 1T/gallon) and a rooting hormone mixture (pretty much the same as the Schultz Root Stimulator that you can get at garden centers, but when you use it on any scale its a lot cheaper to make it up yourself from the individual components -- alpha-naphthyl acetic acid,  indole-3-butyric acid and vitamin B1 (thiamine hydrochloride)). Then keep everything watered for the rest of the Fall as necessary. Soon after planting, we sprinkle a pre-emergent herbicide (Snapshot 2.5TG) on the beds and hoe it in. This stops late germinating weeds and gives a clean start to the next season since its effects carry over onto the spring  We don't lose many transplants this way, but I can't say we arrived at this system by serious experimentation and maybe something something simpler would work just as well. It would be interesting to hear how other people do it and how it works for them. Bob


At 06:18 PM 8/16/2007, you wrote:

Hi Bob,

Would you add your tried and true transplanting suggestions please?

 

Thanks,

Char

New Berlin WI

HIPS Rhizome Sale Chairperson

HIPS Newsletter Editor

DIS Secretary/Treasurer

Region 8 Newsletter Editor

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From: sibrob@yahoogroups.com [ mailto:sibrob@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of shadow_6150
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:49 AM
To: sibrob@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sibrob] Re: Transplanting

 

Thanks a lot for the information!

Shadow, Roscommon County, MI, zone 4

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