Could someone please help Deebie with her problem. I don't think I'm qualified to answer very well. I'd just take a start and grow another but I want her to have help from someone with more experience. Thanks for the help..
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Deebie
Oct 15, 2011 9:11 PM EDT
This guy that I got my NOID yellow from said to plant them and mulch with 6 inches of straw to overwinter them in the ground. I've been too nervous to do that. I have a NOID white planted in the ground, that I've had for at least 10 years. In the fall it would put out 3 or 4 flushes one after another. It got huge too, having at one point 25 stalks easily. I was too naive to take a picture of it. It was way before DG or GW. Which leads me to the question: were (are) all those stalks a part of one plant or was the plant multiplying like a perennial. Two winters ago that plant started dying out in the center sending out fewer and fewer stalks. Then we had that brutal winter last year (we had 3 nights of below freezing weather before we even had frost) and one side of the plant died out. The crown of the plant sits about 3 or 4 inches above the soil level and it's base is about 12 inches or more in diameter. Do I dig that thing up and divide it like a perennial? I'll need a saw to do that as the base is so woody. Any ideas? By the way, it didn't grow much this year as I had trouble keeping it watered well. I kept soaker hoses in that area, but they kept springing leaks and I gave up on them. I wasn't expecting any blooms. But, much to my surprise it has buds at 3 feet instead of the usual 5 to 6 ft. What's more unusual is that I don't see where it put out the y's. I'll have to have a closer examination tomorrow and maybe take some pictures.
