Re: rot and varieties

I should have read this before I posted! Maybe the secret to success with some iris is poor soil and neglect. And I've been throwing the many rocks in my soil out of the yard (or using them for stepping stones if they're too big to throw). Might have to gather them up again.

Good to know that EW thrives somewhere in Utah, Charlotte.

Kent
Sanpete County

foodsafe@cc.usu.edu wrote:

As I read your various posting about rot and problems in growing Best Bet and Edith Wolford, I become more appreciative of my conditions. I have to pay for water for irrigation; can't count on Mother Nature. When I want to develop a new section of the yard for planting iris, it takes both a crowbar and a shovel. I'm right next door to a gravel pit and I figure that my yard is 3 parts rock to 1 part soil. Winters are normally under snow cover. This group talks about blooms in their yards at least a month before I have any hopes of anything showing buds. Despite benign-neglect growing conditions, most of my iris keep acting like weeds including Edith Wolford. I have only had one iris rebloom and it was Best Bet. The grasshoppers chew on the iris leaves but that is the only iris-related insect problem I've noticed. The deer eat my tulips and chew on the the trees, but ignore the iris and daffodils. Guess I should be counting my blessings instead of cussing about needing to go tinker with the drip system.

Charlotte, northern Utah, zone 4
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