Sedum kamtschaticum, commonly known as Kamchatka sedum or Kamchatka stonecrop

Three years ago Elwood and started working on the water tower wall. We took out all of the garbage between the rocks, beer cans  and CW&L brought in 10 cubic yards of dirt , normal garbage junky dirt.

We filled in all the cracks and using little sprigs of Sedum kamtschaticum, commonly known as Kamchatka sedum or Kamchatka stonecrop from our house filled in all the cracks.  We have never had an easier plant to tend too. 

It is very green is spring and the turns a beautiful yellow later.

We had only done this in rock walls as they smother all weeds and soak up a lot of water and are basically hands off after "planting".

As you can see in one of our rock walls they are a very lush plant and IF you ever want to get rid of them they are just hanging on by a thread and are easy to prune and pull out (just in case you change your mind)

What we did not realize is that they seed!   Which is fantastic

We planted this rock wall with sedum but not the ones spreading on the flat ground.  This is GREAT - it smothers out weeds but keep larger plants roots shaded.

AND - it's FREE!!!

All you have to do is stick your hand into the middle and pluck off one sprig

Like this.

then take that sprig and take off the bottom leaves - this is where the roots will start to grow.

Then all you have to do is put a slice into the dirt

Lay the sedum into the slice

And cover with soil - water?  you can . . or not . . it's a succulent so water is not really something it needs.    Notice this is pretty crappy soil - it does not care. In fact I don't think it likes GREAT soil.  We have been making super soil for 10 years and it prefers poor soil. 

And forget about it.

Elwood got a few sprigs out of a rock wall in Madison so we didn't know the name until recently.  It's a wonderful plant for filling in hard to grow places such as rock walls.  Just fill in the cracks with dirt and stick a sprig in it.  BAM

So if you need some take a trip to the water tower and grab a few sprigs.

I want to thank Columbus Water and Light for letting us do this.

Nuff said for today