Re: Cult: Clorox (was ot-bio David Schaffer)


John wrote:

>Just as an aside, I *always* give *EVERY* new iris a clorox bath before
>it gets into my soil. Just don't want to take the chance on introducing
>some disease I don't already have...
>
>John                 

EXCELLENT practice, John.  The year I got too lazy to do this is the year I
imported botrytis rot into my plot--had never seen it before.  You can bet
I'm back to a clorox soak of everything before planting!

Dorothy Fingerhood
daf10@cornell.edu
Newfield  NY (looking forward to a day of digging irises for our sale next
Sat.--oh, yeah, moving some more furniture, too.)     :-(




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