Re: HYB:Seedling Vigor

Betty I had a bed with a row of roses and a row of SDBs in front. The SDB's
were planted with in 6" of roses. Sometimes I used a watering can sometimes
a hose sprayer. In both cases the fertilizer was applied to the rhizomes.
More so when I used the hose sprayer.

 Another bed I had two rows of TBs and a row of annuals mostly. The front
row of TBs got  over spray. Their grow was twice that of the back row.I use
a lot of compost with sand which make my soil very loose. When I dug the
iris then I found roots 4' to 5' long. I do not find them that long now. Now
each cultivars is surrounded by a half moon of 4' drive in edging to prevent
mixing.

When I do the seedlings now it is done with a watering can from the top on
leaves and rhizomes. I have lost maybe 5 or 6 % to rot. But when I lost them
it was very hot and humid, which I blame the rot on. This year I did not
need to water except to apply fertize. Very few times did we go longer than
3 days with out rain from March to September.

Is this what you wanted?

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b SW Ohio
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB:Seedling Vigor


> In a message dated 1/7/2004 11:33:27 AM Central Standard Time,
> redear@infinet.com writes:
>
> > In the past ( before my computer) I had iris growing next to other
flowers
> > that were heavily fertilized.
>
> Mike, you don't say, but my interpretation of this sentence is that you
DID
> NOT fertilize the irises?  When I first started collecting information on
> irises, I ran across information which stated that the best way to
fertilize iris
> was to side dress.  The fertilizer should not be within 8 inches of the
> rhizome. When I grew in rows, and followed this advice it seemed to work
quite well.
>
>
> If you did not fertilize the irises, this would have been the affect you
> saw?? Is this what you were describing?
>
> Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
>
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