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Originally Posted by pjkfarm
At Geo Webster - PLS, Please let us know in May how it worked. I am considering doing the very same thing to see if I can preserve at least the corm of the largest pstems (doubt the pstems will survive as it for sure will get cold even with bags of leaves piled up. I was also going to cover the entire pile with a sheet of plastic to keep water out - weigh it down and use white plastic to prevent overheating - maybe even chuck a couple of pine branches over plastic so sun does not heat it up too much.
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I should have answered much sooner. It got quite warm in April so I uncovered.
I cut off in small increments a foot of the old pstem to find living tissue. It begin growing putting out full undamaged leaves. Also pups came up around it.
two weeks later the other pstems and pups broke ground. those that were covered are about tw
o feet taller than the rest of the mat.
I only remove pups on the west side of the mat to keep them out of the neighbors yard. So I have a rather thick dense mat.
George.