Re: CULT: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
mtirisgirl@web-you.com wrote:
>
> There is smoke in the Billings area too. Sky is hazy today again. There
> is a blaze between Billings and Roundup in the Bull Mountain area from a
> lightening strike Friday evening. Most of the club members are having
> difficulty with the newly planted iris due to the extreme heat in our area
> and lack of water. Our Big Sky Iris Club sale is the next two Sat AM at
> the local downtown Farmers Market. We are still selling all of the iris
> donated to the club and extras from the club members for $1.00 each If you
> are in the Billings area, please stop by and introduce yourself. We do not
> have rebloomers blooming at this time. We did have iris that we received
> from Tempo Two in Australia bloom for us this summer that were planted in
> early spring. Janet & Shan, Zone 5, Billings MT
One solution to the problem of high summer heat is to pot youririses in
one gallon pots and put them in a shadier place until they get started.
It is a lot easier to control the amount of water they get and you can
use a better soil mix that will hold water longer. Come the cooler fall
weather, the plants will already have a good start on root growth and
you can just pop them out of the pots and plop them into the ground.
When I pot, I do it at a table so I am not bent over at ground level
spreading out the roots. Much easier on the back and knees. When it is
time to put them into the ground, one scoop with a shovel makes a hole
and in they go. Much easier.
Just my style. I do this even here in California iris heaven where the
temps rarely get above 90 and mostly stay around 75-80.
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
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