Re: Re: Rocky Ground
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: Rocky Ground
- From: J* C*
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:30:32 -0500
Paul,
I live in northern part of the Ozark Mountians. We have 14 to 24 inches of top soil before we hit bed rock. The top soil has a lot of rocks pushing up all the time. The little irises just love the conditions to grow in. The TB'S have a hard time in getting started, but after they start, they bloom real good. I have brought black dirt in but the rocks kept coming up. There is no stoping the rocks. The irises like the rocks.
Jim Clark in Missouri Zone 5
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From: Paul Tyerman <tyerman@hotmail.com>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:07 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Rocky Ground
< The ground is rocky there and it is very hard to find enough dirt to cover
the roots let alone the rizhomes! I go rob dirt from the veggie garden
just to anchor the roots sometimes! They all do great here except the few at
the lower end of the new moon where it tapers off to the point. These grow
and show no signs of bugs, boreres, rot, or anything , they just dont
bloom??? >
Howdy all,
My first iris garden here in Canberra was chipped down into the solid clay
(literally with a crowbar) and then built up a few inches. The whole garden
when complete may have had 5 inches depth of useable soil, with a solid bowl
of clay underneath.
The garden was around 2.5m long by 1/2 a metre wide. I left them in the
ground the following year as I'd planted them reasonably apart to let them
clump.... a top dressing of sheep manure was all they got that year.
67 spikes the second year in the ground, with 5 inches of soil and clay
underneath. They certainly don't need much to reward you. I think that
might have been what hooked me in the first place. I have NEVER got as good
a flowering since then in any of my properly prepared gardens. They
probably need some stress to make them flower (make them think they're going
to die if they don't!!)
So.... rest assured, you don't need to steal too much soil from the veggie
garden <grin>.
Cheers...
Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia
USDA equivalent approx Zone 8
t*@hotmail.com
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