Spring is the perfect time: split and rejuvenate sedum plant

Spring is the perfect time: split and rejuvenate sedum plant

Divide older adipose hens and protect them from scaling

Adipose hens can live for several decades, but tend to shed with increasing age. At the same time, the willingness to flower decreases, whereby you can counteract these signs of aging by dividing the entire plant. In addition, with a division you kill two birds with one stone, because the measure serves both as a rejuvenation cure and for reproduction.

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  • Cut and rejuvenate sedum plant
  • Sedum plant prefers a sunny location
  • Plant sedum plant in the garden or in the pot

The right time

The best time for this makeover is spring, and it is best to divide the sedum before the first shoot. Ideally, you should do this at least every four to five years.

Split sedum plant: Here's how

If you want to divide the sedum plant, you first have to dig up the whole perennial including the roots.

  • Use a spade or digging fork for this purpose.
  • With this you cut off the soil around the rhizome.
  • While doing this, gently rock the soil back and forth so the root loosens.
  • Lift the plant and its roots out of the ground.
  • Shake off the earth
  • and remove diseased and dried up root parts.
  • Divide the plant by tearing it into several pieces with your hands
  • or share with a powerful cut of the spade.
  • Alternatively, you can of course use a sharp knife.
  • Make sure that the individual sections have at least two shoot buds.

The individual pieces can immediately be planted in their previously determined location outdoors or in the pot.

Tips

The tubers of the individual partial plants are ideally about the size of a clenched fist - to this extent they grow faster and better than larger tubers.