RE: OT-CHAT: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] OT-CHAT: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- From: J* H*
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:21:45 -0700
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From: mtirisgirl@web-you.com
>>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. <<
Janet & Shan,
We're having the same high heat and no rain here again. As I remember,
growing conditions are pretty much the same here as in Billings. Even with
the best intentions, some things always need to be planted after it heats
up and dries out.
I've tried the "pot 'em up" idea and managed only to make extra work for
myself while winding up with cooked roots anyway so now take a different
tack with those pots.
I plant whenever it's cool enough to be outside for very long, water things
in well, then put the upside-down pots *over* the plants to give them
protection from the sun. Pots are left on anywhere from 4 days to a week
(so the plants can get a jump on growing new roots), then removed for an
increasing number of hours every day till the plants have had a chance to
adjust. Works even with the most temperamental things.
Christy Hensler
Newport, WA zone 4b
http://www.povn.com/rock/
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