Higgs Boson wrote:
Brooklyn1 wrote: wrote:

For Chicago it's probably a little too late for dividing daisys,
better to wait until early spring. *Right now remove the plant from
the pot and heel it into the ground

*** Pray, what does "heel it into the ground" mean?

You couldn't have much experience gardening, "heeling in" is very
common Gardening 101 nomenclature; it's what plant nurseries do with
unsold merchandise at the end of the planting season, and what home
gardeners do with plants that for whatever reason they haven't decided
on a permanent home. In this case even though Gerbana daisy prefers a
warmer clime it can survive a cold Chicago winter when properly heeled
in and covered with lots of mulch. Where I live winters are frigid,
temperatures often drop into the minus 20s, even minus 30s. Plant
nurseries dig a deep trench to place the balled and burlaped stock
into at an angle (heeling), then cover with a mountain of organic
mulch, no soil is necessary with balled and burlaped, the roots are
already in soil... the decaying mulch generates enough heat over
winter to protect the root ball... potted plants are treated the same
minus the pot but leave the roots undisturbed with the potting soil.
to make it easier to retrive in spring wrap the root ball with a
schmatah.
And you embarrass yourself... you're also a net newbie... any five
year old nowadays knows how to put heeling in into a search engine,
had you lookerd it up you wouldn't look like such an ass. Methinks
you're simply too preoccupied/blinded with trying to catch me in some
error... don't strain your pea brain, will never happen, especially
now that you've proven how little you know about gardening, the net,
and anything else.
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/gard...-in-plants.htm
http://lmsgreenhouse.com/nursery-pho...ction/14129879