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[Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> A friend here has her JAs in a grid, 16 X 16, a foot apart each way.
> Every year she pulls anything that comes up off an intersection.  After
> 20 years she still has 16 plants.....works for her.
>
> Mine are in a patch (2 patches, actually, each different variety), and I
> just pull anything that comes up outside what I consider the perimeter,
> plus I thin the rest to each be about a foot from its neighbor.
>

Susan, I'm doing similar to you, just mine are now circling the herb patch.
I like them more for the flowers than the roots, I think.

I've got a container full of tubers that have started growing. I'm thinking
about planting them out along the egde of the woods in a spot. Maybe they
would naturalize and make good wildlife food or an emergency patch for me.
What do you think?

Rob - Va