Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
About turkey necking, my Palace Purple does that. I yank them out, cut them apart and replant. It works very well. Out of my 20 or so varieties, this is the only one that seems to do it, and usually only after several years.
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.