Re: CULT: iris seeds - logistics humor

From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>

Hello Folks,

Well, out of thirteen pods = thirteen pots, there have now
been 45 little monocots poke their green shoots up.  One
promptly withered and died and one is microscopic and
not growing, but the rest are happily growing by the hour.

So I got to thinking here (usually not a good thing).  From
the looks of the little cracks appearing, there will more of
these little fellows.  Also, there are only mini-monos in 7 of
the thirteen pots.  One pot hardly counts, since the pod only
had two seeds.  Another pot probably will yield nothing since
an unfriendly foreign attacker snuck up through the bottom
of the pod and it withered before being fully mature (planted it
anyway - hope dies hard).  That still leaves four pots with no
show.  Still, if a few more put up an appearance and survival
is good, then I may be looking at around forty neophyte iris
plants.  Now only one pod was a beepod, which usually get
slam dunked in the nearest available spot to thrive or not and
there are only six in that pot and one of them is the micro-mono.
Now the rest are deliberate (as opposed to planned which implies
a good bit more than taking advantage of offered opportunities and
choosing therefrom) crosses.  Somehow this elevates the level
of curiosity and value of the little mons.

So if there are forty of them to plant, then each should require about
2 sq. ft., more or less.  So, as I said, I was thinking and it truly is not
good.  Two square feet of my soil will probably require at least 4 swings
of the pick or a total of 160 swings for forty.  Then each of those 2 sq
ft will probably require at least 400 turns of the spading fork  This will
be required to thoroughly work in needed soil amendments, that after
approximately 8 wheelbarrows of rocks (not stones - they're too small
to bother with) have been removed and pushed to the gully in the
pasture and dumped, calculate out to about one forty lb bag per each
2 sq ft or 1600 lbs toted (yes, toted - I refuse to drive on the fragile
native groundcover in our almost desert environ and resent it that
so many others refer to the only brief blanket of green as weeds......
tho there are a few....) to the site one at time (I'm far too weak to
double up).  

What have I done?  And where will it all end?   I knew mono was a
disease, but monocots?

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7 - where our 3/8 inch of rain arrived as 15 minute
downpour of pea-sized hail and unlike our lucky neighbors east,
are not likely to see any more this week.
 


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