Psued banned

I wasn't going to say it but the reason I decided against asking was my fear
it would bring the state to my family farm and turn into a witch hunt. The
property is loaded with versicolor. I've got to move a ton of it out of the
horse pasture. The state is pretty famous for going off half cocked and with
the current govenor even more so.  I also will very likely have have to
envoke the federal "Right to Farm" act here before too long. The state
wetlands board has been trying to buy what was left of the family farm from
an elderly aunt. She sold them the worst boggy spots when she got ill but
held on to the property that my husbands family has been farming for 250+
years. When she passed a cousin in NJ inherited it but didn't care about the
farm or family. We bought what we could, including the house that was built
in 1753. Got to pick my battles a bit here and save the family farm. Psued
will have to fade away.

I've got to move my gardens. Move the things around the pond. Move the
versicolor in the horse pasture. Really just been waiting on the iris to
bloom to start a mass plant move. I'm a terrible record keeper but with the
bloom fresh in my mind I at least have a shot at getting things marked
right. Actually it's kind of mind boggling what I have to move. I've got
plants that I have never been without in my life, plants I've had since I
moved out of my parents house, plants begged borrowed and sown. I've
gardened since I was a little kid. Can't remember not doing it. My husband
doesn't garden unless he could eat it. Only time I ever saw him really perk
up was when I told him daylilies were totally edible. Have to make sure he
stays well fed!

Maybe I'm relieved the more that I think about it. Leaves me a few less
plants I need to move.

Sue in NH
Back to farm to till up more garden space!

Hi Sue and all,

I also live in New Hampshire (in New England - northeast United
States). I include this geographical information for out-of-U.S.
folks on this list.

Some disturbing  background on the invasive plant listing in New
Hampshire. About three years ago, my husband and I attended a
training session for volunteers to 'map' the state of New
Hampshire state and federal lands - mainly the hard-to-reach
forests of the White Mountains where we live.

Our 'job' was to recognize and chart certain areas where the
invasives were to be found and I guess the feds and others would
try to eliminate them. Anyway,  during our training, the class
hiked out to an area and
did some charting and then returned to the classroom.

In this area we scoured there were NO Iris pseudoracorus but
plenty of our wonderful native Iris versicolor which delighted
me. However, the other 10 or so other people and the INSTRUCTOR
had charted those wild stands as Iris  pseudoracorus to be
destroyed!

I tried to explain that not all iris in New Hampshire
(especially in the Northern White Mountains) are not invasive
plants. Iris pseudoracorus, I think, is more of a problem in
USDA Zones 4 - 6 and we were in Zone 3.
It had absolutely no effect  since an iris is an iris to these
people or so it seemed.

The Iris versicolor remained on the banned listings for that
area. I refused to go back for the next training and I wrote a
letter to the state and never heard back.

The list is over-reaching and impossible to enforce in any
meaningful way...but it is the New Hampshire way = use
ill-trained volunteers to save a buck.

**If they can tell ua how to eliminate Polygonum cuspidatum
(commonly known as Japanese knotweed) from our garden (it was on
our property when we bought it), we would appreciate it. My
husband has written to the state and also the  New Hampshire
extension service and the solutions they gave us didn't work. We
even tried chemicals to no avail and we do not use chemcials in
our garden.

Ellen (Iris pseud. can be very well controlled in gardens as we
all know)





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