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Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 18:44
| I planted some of these about 10 years ago. They have been doing beautifully. I mostly leave them alone. But, each year, they spread out a little and they are getting a hole in the middle of the clump. They are about 6 feet in diameter now, and the hole in the middle is about a foot and a half. What can I do about this? |
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- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 18:47
| dig up 3 sections.. and leave one there clean out the dead stuff on each of the three .. and the one in the ground ... replant.. or put them at the curb with a free sign ... or compost them ... i doubt if you could kill them.. if you left them on the curb all summer .... ken |
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| Wow! That was fast! Thanks! |
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| Wow! That was fast! Thanks! |
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- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 zone 4a (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 21:22
| Just make sure you've got a sharp shovel. The "donut hole" stage of a Siberian clump is like they're set in concrete. :-) |
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| A shovel may not do it -- my husband cracked the steel blade of a shovel last fall dividing a clump of Ceasar's Brother. No, it wasn't a cheapo Home Depot shovel, it was a good one from Lee Valley. An axe might be more appropriate for a ten year old clump. |
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- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 zone 4a (My Page) on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 9:48
| Caesar's Brother is a tenacious ground gripper by the ten year mark - the "hole" in the middle is generally old dried rhizome stock. Once big chunks of it are out of the ground, a pruning saw works fairly well to get transplanting sized pieces - it just laughed at various types of knives. The white counterpart, Snow Queen, doesn't seem to enlarge on that scale. |
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