Re: CULT: iris health

Yes, Linda, please keep updating us.  I find this very interesting.

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3
MIS & DIS Display Garden

----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 11:47 AM
Subject: [iris] CULT: iris health


> One of our club members has very healthy iris, reblooming regularly.
> This year's low humidity and drought has helped with the usual 'summer
> crud' (leaf spot, rot), and she's in a much better location than I am
> (re: air circulation and dew problems) but hers seem to be doing
> exceptionally well.  I got to see them the other day, and they look
> healthy as can be.
>
> She grooms them fairly regularly, plus they are in newly made raised
> beds in a mix of purchased topsoil (actually pasture soil that feels
> like it is mostly clay) and Miracle Gro potting soil that has never
> grown irises.
>
> The key to hers doing so well, however, seems to be that she waters them
> <heavily> every day with the 'backwash' (i.e., dirty water) from her
> swimming pool, which is treated with non-chlorine algaecide and
bactericide!
>
> It's a fairly expensive specialty product, but I'm considering buying
> some to try on some of the potted store-bought irises, hoping that will
> allow me to switch to some kind of potting mix that will hold moisture
> better than this dirty perlite concoction.  With ongoing drought that
> actually started last fall, it's too much work to keep them hydrated in
> the perlite.
>
> This group seems to have pretty much shut down - hope enough people
> still reading that might find this of interest to make it worth going to
> the trouble of typing it up??
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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