Divide older adipose hens and protect them from scaling
Adipose hens can live for several decades, but tend to shed with increasing age. At the same time, the willingness to flower decreases, whereby you can counteract these signs of aging by dividing the entire plant. In addition, with one division you kill two birds with one stone, because the measure serves both as a makeover as well as multiplication.
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- Cut and rejuvenate sedum plant
- Sedum plant prefers a sunny location
- Plant sedum plant in the garden or in the pot
The right time
The best time to do this makeover is in the spring, and you get the Sedum plant ideally should split before the first budding. Ideally, you should do this at least every four to five years.
Divide sedum plant: Here's how it works
If you want to divide the sedum plant, you must first dig up the whole perennial including the roots.
- Use one for this purpose spade or one Digging fork.
- With this you cut off the soil around the rhizome.
- While doing this, gently rock the soil back and forth so that the root loosens.
- Lift the plant and its roots out of the ground.
- Shake off the earth
- and remove diseased and dried up root parts.
- Divide the plant by tearing it into several pieces with your hands
- or share with a powerful cut of the spade.
- Alternatively, you can of course also use a sharp knife.
- Make sure that the individual sections have at least two shoot buds.
The individual pieces can immediately be attached to your previously determined location outdoors or also planted in the pot will.
Tips
The root tubers of the individual sub-plants are ideally about the size of a clenched fist - to this extent they grow faster and better than larger tubers.
