I was over at Mom's house to help her dig out one of her Phoenix Robellini 3-headded palms so that we could attempt to re-plant it a bit deeper. One of the three heads was starting to fall to the side and appeared to be dying because it was too far out of the dirt and wasn't being supported. Knowing the plant was way to big and rooted for a simple shovel, Mom picked up a digging bar. That thing was AMAZING!!! It sliced through roots like butter and was strong enough to pry that ginormous plant up out of the ground (a shovel would have surely broke)!!! It took hours of digging and prying but we got it! We decided to slice off that 3rd head and pot it separately (hoping it would come back to healthy eventually) and just re-set the remaining 2 heads. Ultimately the planting was successful, but unfortunately we ended up nursing a couple wounds from the ordeal. Mom hurt her heal from hours of stomping on a shovel, and I bore a whole into my palm with the digging bar!
I was over at Mom's house to help her dig out one of her Phoenix Robellini 3-headded palms so that we could attempt to re-plant it a bit deeper. One of the three heads was starting to fall to the side and appeared to be dying because it was too far out of the dirt and wasn't being supported. Knowing the plant was way to big and rooted for a simple shovel, Mom picked up a digging bar. That thing was AMAZING!!! It sliced through roots like butter and was strong enough to pry that ginormous plant up out of the ground (a shovel would have surely broke)!!! It took hours of digging and prying but we got it! We decided to slice off that 3rd head and pot it separately (hoping it would come back to healthy eventually) and just re-set the remaining 2 heads. Ultimately the planting was successful, but unfortunately we ended up nursing a couple wounds from the ordeal. Mom hurt her heal from hours of stomping on a shovel, and I bore a whole into my palm with the digging bar!
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