Re: Maxi-Crop (seaweed)


 Japanese irises cannot tolerate any alkaline condition at all.  If planted
near a cement pond or sidewalk or near a cement foundation of a house, the
leaching will kill the Japanese iris very quickly.  I had a friend who mixed
Compro (the sewage sludge product you can buy by the ton) in his iris beds.
 The TBs loved it, but the JI's all died.  If you pot Japanese irises in
potting soil you buy by the bag in the store, they will likely not live...
BUT you can plant them in hard red clay here that won't grow other things,
and they thrive.  

This is interesting, Clarence -- 1-  how close is "near a cement sidewalk"??
 2- what is in a bag of potting soil -- I will have to run out there tonight
and take stuff out of their pots!!

3- how long would it take to see the affect of nearby cement/ potting soil
 on Japanese??  would we see yellowed foliage, or failure to grow/thrive, or
merely lack of bloom??   would the affect be immediate??  

does the limestone leech out of the cement of, say, a sidewalk?? so that
watering which floods the area including the source of the limestone
 would allow the bad stuff to float over to the Japs??  Japs should not 
be planted in a cement pool, then???? (no, I don't have a cement pool...)

 CarolynSchaffner in hot, humid, Buffalo, NY
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