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Re: Re: CULT: iris myths

From: "Patrick Orr" <PatrickJOrr@hotmail.com>

Please just remember...if your organic matter that you are adding to your soil is not fully composted first, it will take nitrogen out of the soil and away from the plants in order to decompose. 
 
Patrick Orr
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Zone 9 Region 15
Member: AIS, TBIS, SDIS (local)
----- Original Message -----
From: l*@mailhub.icx.net
To: i*@onelist.com
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:04 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: iris myths

From: linda Mann <l*@mailhub.icx.net>

Kathy Guest in New York wrote:
> Then I had a new bed build in my front yard composed entirely of compost and
> composted horse manure.  I have never had more robust and glorious irises,
> nor have I suffered any rot whatsoever. 

Goodness Kathy, is this what you did when you told us a year or so ago
that you were going to chuck the 'recommended' procedures for growing
irises?  Talk about busting iris myths...  No sand or soil of any kind?
no perlite?  What's gonna happen as the organic matter decomposes and
packs down?

I think it's always worth experimenting with new ways of growing these
dudes, especially if they aren't doing as well as you'd like otherwise. 
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
gradually weeding the fall crop of self sown turnips out of the 'killing
fields' where they are trying to smother newly set rhizomes.  Wild
turnips are NOT a good companion plant for irises, tho the erect tame
sorts might be ok.

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