Re: Iris beds

From: "AE C" <maestro123@hotmail.com>

Hi Lora,

Thanks for the tips.

I thought about breaking the area into smaller beds.  What size beds 
does anyone recommend that could be worked a little bit easier?

 When we first moved here we had a riding mower and soon realized we 
needed a regular tractor if we were ever going to grow anything at all!  
I tried to dig a 60 x 3 foot row by hand for my roses that I was 
bringing fom the other place but it was near impossible to dig by hand.  
So I just got some wood landscaping boards and framed the area and had 
it filled in with peat and top soil. The roses did pretty good for 
having been transplanted. I figured that I would just plow up a small 
area this fall to get started and do the rest in the spring.

ElizabethP.

>From: "Lora L. Masche" <loramasche@cdepot.net>
>To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:36:22 -0700
>Reply-to: iris-talk@onelist.com
>Subject: [iris-talk] Re: Iris beds
>
>From: "Lora L. Masche" <loramasche@cdepot.net>
>
>Hi Elizabeth,
>
>You have your work cut out for you.
>
>After having worked large areas myself, you might want to consider 
breaking
>that 1\2 acre into smaller sections and work the soil trying different
>amendments until you fine what is going to work in the soil.  If the 
soil is
>clay, working the ground now will be back breaking and to some extent
>difficult.  You might want to wait until spring when the ground is soft 
and
>will break up easier.


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