I went out to vote in a local election and on the way home stop to dig
up some cattails growing in the ditch down the road. It was a fairly
busy highway but fortunately only three or four cars went by. Only one
had a good piece of root because I had to move fast. The ground was
quite dry.
I had to tie them up to some old broom handles. For some reason my
mini-catails rotted perhaps they were too deep or didn't like the clay
soil.
Happy watergardening.