[Applause] hey science may 3rd and we're going to stream to do I've been to stand dividing some of my perennials this is the coreopsis Moonbeam and I already took them off of here all I needed to do is get in here with a shovel and dig up a little bit like this and then I'm going to take and divide them and put them in some pots or move them around here in my landscape so it's very simple to do just like so and put that back in there because I already done that and once I dub today the chickens just came around and the worms and stuff so I'll take you inside the greenhouse now I'll show I will show you how much that I dug up today that we're going to be transplanting into pots so I'm in my little greenhouse there is my Moonbeam coreopsis perennial it's raining out right now so I'm glad I done it I like to dig up some things and put them in the greenhouse for rainy days windy days and such so it gives me something to do you know when I or don't want to be outside so I'm just going to show you how I do this how I divide these there's a little bit trickier to advise especially if they get a little bigger you just to by the way they grow I'm just going to kind of show you what I do and I'm going to be putting them in some four inch pot okay got a lot of help here without my chickens I got my dogs don't know if you can hear them but scares one here I kind of try to like to get a little bit of the mud off and see some worms in there and I'll throw this dirt out into my pile but these are just by the way they grow it's just a little bit hard to divide sometimes so get a couple pots ready here I don't put a whole lot in because I like to there's going to be a lot of root mass here but if I have to I will take a knife and cut them now this one's way too big to put in a four inch pot because they multiply I just kind of twist them and pull them apart it usually works sometimes it doesn't but there you go see that how they grow this it's a little bit trickier to do and I might have to do some trim in there I just take and put a little bit of fertilizer in there slow-release fertilizer for the perennials because they need it they they do a lot better if you fertilize them and then I just firm some soil over packing in just a little bit and there it is now it's going to look a lot better here give it a week or so and if I have to I do take and trim some of this stuff off here if there's some roots sticking up in the air so but that's just a little one they're so little it's a little moonbeam coreopsis but again this is a peat perlite and it's always the soil that I use and that's always a soil that's done well for me there you go there's a transplant we're not the greatest-looking I want to show you some of these clumps that I gotta divide here look at these so some of these that I might just take a big clump and make some make some more areas of them out out there because they do really good here and it like the heat and the Sun but as you can see how they grow here it makes it just a little difficult to transplant but I do manage so what I do here now is go in here and see how they're put together and see if I can pull it apart there we go and there's a nice little one right there look at that nice so we'll go ahead and get all the roots to the bottom here and put it in a four inch pot that's pretty much it it's simple and it takes a little time and they don't look real pretty at first but they will and they will straighten up they usually do and once they start growing if they get kind of leggy they get a little leggy I just take and trim the tops down and then they come in nice and full and then you know it makes them look a lot better so I got three transplants right there okay we got 15 pots water man now and so take a little adjustment for these but don't be good and say maybe I'll give them probably months in these pots we'll get settled in maybe maybe less we'll see how they do and like I said I'll be trimming some of them tops off so see how they come in and how they wrote in and stuff and they'll be fine I've done this many many times and it always seems to work out want to give me an update on the coreopsis when I transplanted some of these are let's see it was May 3rd today is May 15th and they're coming along I already trimmed the tops off a little bit once in a while we get a couple of them shoots come up a lot bigger than the rest so I just trim it off to get the rest of the plant to fill in and it works very well so they're coming along and they're doing good just wanted to give you that update just to let you know that they did survive