Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening 8 April 2014 "Better late than never", 5 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I've been outside too...since 11AM or so. Now it is 3;30...Time flies when you're having 'fun"..
Needed something to eat.....

Was going to plant my Dill and Parsley--but ended up doing 2 other major things..
Trying to get the harder things done--paying a price for it too.. My whole arm aches
and tingles--and my fingertips are pretty numb. I know I am overdoing it a bit--but....

SO! Today, I decided to do some major surgery on my old, big Scheffalera Arboricola.
It is old--and this winter it just shed and shed and shed it's leaves.
I cut it back severely last night--put all the cut off tops in water to root.
Then--I un-potted it and worked all the soil loose from the roots. Geez!

That took a while...put it on the ground and washed off as much of it as i could.
Cut back the roots --pretty severely--and re-potted it in fresh, amended soil.
BIG job- but now DONE! This plant is about 23 years old...got it in a 5" pot
from thee grower I worked for. It was a reject.

Second job I did was separate the bowl of that little Hosta--that looked like "Mouse ears"..
Mamma Mia! It was SOOOO tangled...took me an hour! Wanted to be careful...
Re-potted the sections--now have 3 bowls of it.

Here's the-potting pics...

1--Loosened roots looking at the bottom
2--Looking at thr top and side of it
3--This was the single longest root of all of them....
4--Roots cut back--as much as I needed to do it.
5--All re-potted. This is a 16" pot it has lived in and will continue to do so.
I am confident it will re-grow in spades!