Re: CULT: Burning worries?

Kelly I don't think you have killed any iris or perennial weeds and grasses.
I have helped a friend burn the last two years. The fire got hot enough to
melt aluminum labels.

I think it would be best to burn before growth has started. Burning when you
have new leaves could retard growth and bloom. Should kill a lot of borer
eggs. It will make it easer to weed what is left.

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b
SW Ohio
Region 6
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kelly D. Norris" <kellydn@frontiernet.net>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: [iris] CULT: Burning worries?


> I feel kind of silly asking for a little support but.....I am a little
> late in finishing up some of my burning.  In my climate where temps are
> averaging 50-60's in the daytime now and foliage is 6-7" high am I doing
> any damage to the plants or setting them back in any way?  The stuff
> that I burned early (and by my schedule on TIME!!) seems to be doing
> well.  Some of the late stuff was burned back completely to the ground.
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> I guess I am fretting more than anything.  I can't explain or justify to
> myself how my actions would have killed them but thought I would solicit
> the knowledge of those far more experienced and wiser than I.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Botanically,
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> Kelly D. Norris

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