First Gardening of 2019: Moving Marshmallow Plants

It's too muddy to get in the garden for real yet, but I thought I'd move these marshmallow herb plants now that the ground was thawed. We planted them in this little flower bed a couple years ago, not realizing how big they'd get, and they kind of crowd everything out. The digging was harder than I expected, because they grew down into a pretty thick layer of rock, so I couldn't bring them up with a nice dirtball. That probably won't hurt anything, since herbs, especially perennials, tend to be pretty tough.

Once I had this one dug up, it started falling apart into several different plants, so it was already dividing itself. I planted five of them along a concrete wall where I've been wanting to put some cover. I have a feeling the remaining roots will come up again, so I may have to put plastic or something down for a while to snuff them out.

Also planted a few peas and radishes right behind these a couple days previously, just pressing them into the mud, but it's too soon for them to be up. I saw some chickens loafing there the next day, so they may have gobbled up the seeds already.