I bought a couple of plants at the fall region 14 meeting this past Saturday.
The plants had a ton of roots, but it appeared to me the plants had been grown in a very heavy dense soil, maybe even compacted soil. All the roots were bunched up on top of each other making quite a mass of thick roots.
My concern when planting them was rot, would that mass of thick roots stacked so closely on each other start dying and cause rot? I pulled off all the black soft dying and dead roots, but that still left a mass of roots.
Does anyone plant this type of plant any differently that normal? It looked rather silly to sit those plants up on a dome of dirt being the roots were already stacked on each other. So I was actually tempted to cut the lower layer of roots off, but decided against it. Any thoughts?
