Re: CULT: strange storage
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  • Subject: Re: CULT: strange storage
  • From: B* J* <j*@mts.net>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:51:31 -0600

I sometimes do this with rhizomes I don't get around to planting or when I just plain run out of time to plant.

Stored dry in paper bags and then planted in pots in March and it is amazing how fast they start showing both root and top growth. So far I haven't done it with anything special but sometimes our garden centers get their iris in September which is much too late to be planting TBs in zone 3(ish) so if I succumb to the temptation, I keep them over in the paper bags and plant them in spring.

Whatever works and nice to have the option.

BJ in SW MB, Canadian Prairies, Zone 3(ish)

On 2/11/2011 7:02 PM, Betty Wilkerson wrote:
http://www.irisloversblog.com/

This is a blog from SpringHill.  Read all the way down.  In the 56 years I've
raised irises, I've never heard of lifting and storing iris rhizomes in paper
bags.  Anyone else?


Betty W.

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