Zone 5

Papillion, Ne

 

We had over 250 vari! eties for the sale this year.  The club gets together to clean all the irises and mark the leaves with the price and names.  It takes about 5 hours each day.  One of the local nurseries went out of business and gave us her plastic plant trays.  These are used both to dry the irises and display them at the sale.   It saves the step of transferring irises from the window screens to cardboard flat boxes.  The bars are not using boxes anymore for beer.  They are shrink-wrapping beer.  Last year we had to scrounge to find enough cardboard flat  boxes.  The plastic trays are much nicer.

 

Scarlett

 

In a me! ssage dat! ed 9/9/2014 11:02:01 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, i*@yahoogroups.com writes:

 

Quite a fancy set up!

I usually put a plastic chair in the shade surrounded by three plastic
garbage cans of water plus a 5 gallon bucket with a cup of Clorox. Use
one garbage can for the first rinse, next one for second rinse, then a
brief Clorox dip, then a final rinse in the 3rd garbage can, and spread
them out on old window screens in the shade to dry.

I haven't had a lot of donations to give to our club sales recently -
mostly just growing seedlings - but back in the day, that was usually
enough! washing to get a few hundred rhizomes quite clean.

Fortunately, my soil is organic gravelly loam, so other than bits of
sand or small rocks and a fine layer of soil, most soil just shakes off
and a quick swish thru a bucket of water gets them pretty clean. Water
that sloshes on the ground disappears fast on my gravelly creek soil. &
it's usually hot enough at digging time that the spring water feels good
to play in.

Wouldn't work for clay.

Linda Mann