first Siberian clump divided today
- Subject: [sibrob] first Siberian clump divided today
- From: "Harold" h*@directcon.net
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:19:29 -0700
I divided a 4 year old clump of Roaring Jelly this afternoon. I am sure glad there was no one around to watch the process. After 30 minutes with the garden hose washing out rocks and dirt, I had this seamless mass of roots and rhizomes all the way around the clump. More washing yeilded a larger rock and a handhold into the roots. It took about an hour but I finally completed a manual tearing apart of the clump. I have two stacks of cinder blocks that support a refrigerator shelf at my water cleaning work station. I removed the shelf and used the edge of the cinder blocks to concentrate the force to break the large clumps down once I had an opening into the clump.
This clump was only medium size compared to the clump of Caesar's Brother and Tropic Nights. I think I will start with the axe or hatchet if I ever decide to divide those. I wondered how a regular commercial garden grew Siberians for sale. Based on comments in the minimal acceptable size of divisions, I can now understand the advantage of "lining out".
Thanks to all of you who responded to the question about minimal acceptable size. I learned a lot in that series of responses.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
2048 Hickok Road
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
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