POSTED: June 13, 2006 by Zulu
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Sorry it took so long for me to get back here. I will do as you girls suggest. Maybe tomorrow I will try.
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you should winnow through it after it's been dug up and get out the old rhizomes that are kind of soft and hollow, as they may be wormy or diseased. Then you can replant the young, healthy rhizomes. This is a good way of increasing them, because every new little rhizome can start a new clump. But the way Jenjen described means that you will have nice big flowering clumps sooner. Either way, now is the right time, and you should get them back into the ground as soon as possible to give them lots of time to establish themselves before winter.
PS If you divide them up, right down to the young rhizomes, you may want to cut the leaves back by half, just with scissors, since you have reduced the root area...also, it doesn't hurt to put a little mulch on them the first winter. Using Jenjen's method, just give them a good watering and they will never suspect anything happened...
if they have finished blooming now is the time to split them...just dig them up and try to leave a lil dirt on the and with your shovel...preferably a spade shovel...find the best spot to split them or wherever you want to split them and push the shovel down into it as hard as you can...once you split it...plant them where you want them...that's the way i've always done it...i've always replanted them as soon as i split them