Spent 8 hours pulling and counting 11 different sorts of semps. It's half accomplished. Have them sitting on stacking bread trays to air dry a bit before shipping them out on Monday or Tuesday. Am also topping off the beds as I move them out and replanting the remaining semps to keep them higher than the sides of the raised beds (so as to have no water damage over the winter). Tedious and very time-consuming, but worth it in the end. Hope to finish it up tomorrow. So far, you can't tell that any have been removed - I really do have A LOT of certain semps.

The most I am pulling are 200 of any one variety and most are in the 50 - 100 range. So far, I have only opened up one area by pulling ALL of the semps in that area. They were noID's and very similar to S. 'Sanford Hybrid', so no great loss. Am trying to have fewer and fewer of the noID's - only because it annoys me to NOT know their names. The noID's I'm keeping are ones I'm sure are named varieties and I just don't know what they are. I keep hoping that I'll somehow manage to identify them in time...

Thanks for letting us know how it is going...very interesting!

Good going Kate.

It took 2 solid days to get all dug - including replacing soil from the dug areas to prevent standing water/ice over the winter. Waiting another day for them to dry sufficiently and hoping to ship on Tuesday.

If you didn't know, you'd never be able to tell that so many were dug. I do have a shocking amount of some varieties. All the digging did allow me to consolidate some into smaller areas, put in some new dividers, top it all off, and now they spaces are just waiting for some new varieties to fill 'em in.

Anybody need any S. 'Sanford Hybrid? I still have far too much of it.

I would love to see some pictures...

Sure sounds like a huge project Kate. I've been slowing eliminating my NOIDS over the last few years too. Space is precious and I'd rather keep the room for named plants.

on getting the order completed.

It's almost 9PM and fully dark. I've just come in from packaging up he semps to send out tomorrow. This, after a full 9-5 day of chainsawing an old apple orchard into submission. Today was the last day (of three weeks) and I'm happy to have it finished.

Here is a photo of how I separated and dried off the roots of all the semps.

Good job Kate. Now you need to treat yourself to something special.

valleylynn said:
Good job Kate. Now you need to treat yourself to something special.

Yes - I'd happily settle for a single good night's sleep.

wow thanks for the picture...

quite impressive....

Sweet dreams Kate.

mick64 said:quite impressive....

too. So much work, hope you had a good sleep.

Update: he was so happy with the order that he required another 50 S. 'Mrs. Guiseppi' and a couple of hundred of the un-named arach that I have acreage of (well, not really, but lots).

I just knew he would love them.

Wow, that is one prolific arach semp.

Are you sure it is not "The Semp that ate the world?"

Good one Marilyn.

Also looks like someone let the bubble bath run over or "peas on the run"