Re: Japanese Iris and virgin soil

At 12:28 AM 8/18/96 -0600, John wrote:
>Anybody thinking about trying the "occasional flooding" process suggestion
that 
>Clarence made earlier? If living at the edge of a body of water or under a
water spout 
>solves the problem, why not try flooding your beds a couple of times before
you 
>replant?


I just spoke to Marie Dienstback, yes the 1996 Co-Recipient of the J. A.
Payne Medal for Edge of Frost (Dienstbach 1988), to congradulate her on the
award and she ask me to thank everyone on the list for responding to her
question.  She has a few more that cropped up as she read the postings but
they will have to wait until later.  Anyway, she did tell me of someone she
knew who planted one of his JIs at the end of a down spout and they are
doing great!  She said, he had spoken of 50 blooms (or was it bloom stalks,
I can't remember) this year.  So it must be an old and established clump.
Personally I was under the impression that they need needed to be dug up
every 3 years or so because the next years growth grew over the top of the old.

I was thinking, couldn't you buy a plastic wading pool and put a water
bleed-off valve in the side.  Plant the JIs in pots and grow them in the
water filled pool during the summer and drain the pool in the winter and
fill it with mulch?  You would most likely have to change the water every
few weeks.  Would this take care of the toxicity problem?


Craig Hughes
chughes@inlink.com
St. Louis, MO.
Zone 5
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