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After the peony clump is dug up: there are all these large fat 'tubers...' (maybe not officially called that but for descripition sake I will call them that).. then there are the stringy hair-like 'roots.' When the clump is divided - I know to look for a few 'eyes' and to make sure each newly 'tuber' has at least a few of those eyes. BUT - it is almost impossible to retain the hair-like roots during the division. So, my question is --is it the fat reddish part (looks like minature sweet potatos) that everyone is calling the root? Or, must I try to get each division separated with the hairy stuff attached? It is a tangled mess in there. What do you all do, slice right through? I am glad these rarely need to be divided, but I needed to move the entire clump and figured I'd divide while it was out of the ground.
Thanks Dorothy.
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