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We built some raised beds..
We're using landscape ties for this one.
We've got some
weed fabric below it to keep the weeds and
we've got the thing nicely raked...
We're then going to start...
I start with about a
width of my hand away from the end of the
raised bed, and we're just using this straight edge now as a marker
to tell us where to start with our trench...
and then we build a trench
like this.
To get it deep enough,
this is an easy tool too cause it reaches all the way across the trench
then you can enhance it with your trough.
We make a deep enough so that we can actually just lay the plants
right in
to something like that
and they did just...the roots just need to be underneath the ground.
We got a lot of plants here that responded... we brought these plants out
of the
shade house over there couple hours ago and they were all
leaves were kind of furled like this...just sitting out here for
couple hours
these plants...the leaves are starting to unfurl
and they're looking pretty happy.
You can see how we store them in trays
and we bought these
starters probably a month ago
and i just put them in trays and
in planting soil,
get them moist
uh... and they're good for a couple months. You could store them in your
refrigerator
if you couldn't
plant them immediately
You could bundled these up in... like a
paper towel. Keep the paper towel moist. Put it right in your refrigerator
in the crisping drawer
and then when you're ready to plant...
like Ken's doing here. You can see he's doing a really nice job of laying them out
kind of evenly
You know...you can just
this nice soil is so
loose
that we can just
take the plant,
stick it in the ground
and again you see with the trench method
the roots... we can just lay the roots down..
you can just lay the roots down... you can push that in a little bit too
and um... the roots will grow
like that and they'll end up growing all together.
You don't want to
plant them too deep. You know,
naturally they grow...they are
planted about yea deep
So I lay it down, I hold it with one hand and poke...
and it stands right up.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. That's good.
so then you take your trough
and just take your soil and maybe start a little high..
and push the soil over...
covering up the
roots of the plants as you go.
They're pretty happy. You might push it in
a little bit, and what I do sometimes is I come in behind,
from the other direction
and that lifts the plant up... straightens it up.
Right...
it also... it'll create a ditch
between this row
and the next row...
and then we start in the the next row. We bring our stick over
we're gonna
measure
...we'll bring yours in a little bit there...
that's pretty good
and then we're just going to
make a trench
See, and you notice this time I'm using my
hand trough
as I can reach over and Ken can
get his side
and then we got a nice trench
to work with.
So if you see this plant
it's kind of J shaped...
That's how it grew in nature
so you don't have to have plant it like that with the roots straight down
though the plant will
eventually straighten up.
You can just get it in the there
poke it in...
and the important thing...you can see how the roots are kinda laid down in that trench...
That's the important thing is to make sure the roots are well covered. That's a
little
...little root. I'm kind of questionable about that. Will be
interesting to see if that grows next year.
We'll put this one right here. We'll remember where that is...
like that and we put the...
we try to do ten plants across
but you can use just the general rule of thumb is that the plants are
about the width of your hand apart,
and it doesn't matter if the roots
intermingle
because they do that nature anyway.
And so you push it down - get it nice and started like that.
These plants will start to multiply... they'll start to flower
so maybe not next year but maybe the following year
you'll start seeing flowers
developed and of course those flowers will produce seed
and the seeds will drop
and those will germinate
and you'll get a thicker and thicker clump.
Would be one
big, huge clump basically.
More plants... and hopefully if we take the plants that have
rhizomes... that are attached by rhizomes,
and we split them
new growth will come from the rhizome
and you'll get
more plants that way as well.