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Re: Software/Mulch

Mulching the paths for weed control works fairly well except for some weeds that thrive with mulch. If the soil in the paths is a mud problem, mulch really helps. A nearby commercial garden used tree trimming chips for his mulch. No cost as the tree trimmers are always looking for places to dump. There is no concern about pathway mulch using the nitrogen for the irises. Nitrogen is downward mobile but not particularly sideways.
 
I use Roundup extensively on my 1 acre of irises. I keep a low pressure in the tank, use a special Roundup fogging nozzle and am carefully with the spray wand. If I accidentally spray an iris leaf, I either wash it off with a laundry spray bottle or tear the leaf off. Most years I have less than 20 blooms with Roundup distortion. I consider that a very minor price to pay for killing thousands of weeds while standing up. There is no noticable long term effect on the rhizomes. I have used Roundup to weed rows that had so many weeds that you could not see the irises. It took three sprayings to achieve weed control. The first to kill enough weeds to see the irises. The second got the weeds in close to the iris fans and the third to get rid of anything missed on the second pass.
 
I am a safety engineer and have very carefully read the MSDS for Roundup. When used according to directions and with care, it is very safe. We used to have a couple of dogs who lived in what was my fenced in garden. Every year they had problems with stickers from the weeds. After reading the MSDS, I used Roundup to control the weeds in their area and no more foxtail problems and associated expensive vet bills. The dogs went to college with my youngest daughter who didn't trust me to take care of them as she knew I didn't like the dogs and that my wife wouldn't take adequate care of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: I*@comcast.net
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Software/Mulch

Thank you Janice for the software mention.
 
As for mulching......... here in Arizona I don't believe many of us has a need to mulch.  As for weeds - - I found it's just better to hand pick them. (As time consuming as it is).  I've heard stories of how chemicals on or near the iris root system can change the color and form on one's spring Blooms.  And if not used for a year, the flowers will go back to it's normal color and form. 
 
1.) I figure it's not worth my own personal health risk, and
2.) it's not worth the possible deformation in those iris. 
 
But, maybe someone else has the answer. I wish you luck.
 
Margie V.
Oro Valley, AZ.
Zone 8/9
I*@comcast.net
 
----- Original Message -----
From: j*@tbr.state.tn.us
To: '*@yahoogroups.com'
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:47 AM
Subject: [iris-photos] Software

The software that I used for the Iris picture show is called Impatica
(http://www.impatica.com). I agree about the distortion of the iris images
being awful, but to make everything look nice and tidy I just "squeezed" the
image to fit into the frame. As time goes by I will crop my photos down to
the size I need and then put them in the frames, then I won't get the
distortion.

For bigger viewing on your PC you can change your display (for PC's go to
Control Panel, Display) size to 640X480 and the images get somewhat bigger.
I was trying to get the most images I could on one page without having to
scroll horizontally or vertically, thus the size you see now.

Janice Frizzell
Beautiful Sunny day in TN



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