Today was pup removal day here at the casa. My pup Chica decided to help. Here we are getting ready to dig.
These are the pups to be removed.
Some digging around to get all the roots with the pup.
The cut pup.
The first removed pup. It looks small but it measured 4-1/2 feet from the bottom of the corm to the tip of the tallest leaf. This is also the first pup to be taken from any of the plants in my yard!
Here it is wrapped in moist newspaper ready to be plastic bagged.
And here is Chica putting her seal of approval on the packing job. The box is about 5 feet long and weighed about 7-1/2 pounds! Hope it gets there in one piece.
In the process of digging the pups out I learned that I'm not watering deep enough and the soil is going back to clay in just 5 months after serious ammending and and continued mulching. I think i need to just remove all the clay soil from my yard down about ten feet and back fill it with sand and compost!
