Re: HYB:CULT: Moving day
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  • Subject: Re: HYB:CULT: Moving day
  • From: c* f* <f*@yahoo.com>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:48:43 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for your responses, Betty and Donald.  If anyone else has anything to add, please don't hesitate.

I was sure in my mind that if I moved them before they bloomed there would be no bloom.  So, I'm pleased to know that may not be the case.  My husband is already planning to commute back twice a week, maybe I can get a load of irises on each trip.  I'm sure I'll have to stamp my foot and raise my fist... but maybe.

It's a funny thing how the posts on the list jog a mind.  I had not given any thought to moving the irises with dirt attached, mostly because I was planning to load them into cardboard boxes for the trip...  Reading your posts reminded me that I have a roll of plastic sheeting laying around that I could use as a container... maybe.  Certainly, I could line the bed of a truck with it...  Might work well for those sections of the seedling beds where the seedlings are grown into each other and labels are lost... Just pick up the whole mass and slide it onto a sheet of plastic.... hmmmm says I.

How did you label your irises for the move?  In the past I've written directly on the fan with sharpie, but in wet conditions that will be less than effective....

I need to get a potato pitch fork anyway. 

Betty, how did you get a trench dug in January in Kentucky?

Christian




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From: "autmirislvr@aol.com" <autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 1:56:41 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB:CULT: Moving day

<Oh, and isn't there a Lexington KY area iris club?>>

The Blue Grass Iris Society.

Anette Milch is President.  She's on this list.  tmilchh@aol.com



<<Any thoughts?>>

In 1986 I moved my entire iris garden on March 19 while it snowed.  Still had
bloom that spring and made my first 17 successful crosses.

We dug a trench in the new garden first and then lifted the irises in clumps
with a good portion of dirt connected.  The dirt was a bit soggy so it stuck
well.  We lined the irises up in the bed of the pickup front to back.  I
believe it took 6 trips.  The clumps fit right into the trench.

With a longer trip, I'd probably try layering the clumps.

Betty W
KY Zone 6




-----Original Message-----
From: christian foster <flatnflashy@yahoo.com>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 12:21 pm
Subject: [iris] HYB:CULT: Moving day


Hey gang,
Thanks for all your positive comments about my last post.
My husband and I are relocating... the house this week, and the farm sometime
in
he next six months.  We are moving roughly one gardening zone north.
When I should move the irises?  Is it possible to move them before bloom
season
May, in this zone anyway) and still be able to make crosses.
The last year has been fairly wet, so the bed is practically oatmeal right
now.
n the other hand, the rhizomes may be larger and easier to find.
Any thoughts?
Oh, and isn't there a Lexington KY area iris club?
Christain
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