TB:CULT:OT: Tools, Codes, and oh my God could he be right?

Hiy'all

I was wandering around Lowe's the other day and I saw an odd tool.  It
looked like nothing so much as a giant tounge scraper, or a handle on the
wrong end that had been sharpened.  The label seemed to indicate that it was
quite effective as a weeding tool because it wouldn't disturb the topsoil.
They said it was good for seedling beds.  I guess the basic idea is that you
kinda cut into the soil just below the growth and that tears up the roots of
the weeds and makes them into mulch?  Anyway, has anyone had any experience
with this tool?  Is it intended to help prepare beds or just for beds that
are already well tilled?

The reason I ask is of course the impending arrival of iris I've ordered/
traded.  I looked around one day and realised that I've ordered a pretty
good bunch, and that they were going to require a lot of bed.  My husband
had a little snit the other month and fussed that he wanted to be part of
the process of deciding where to put the iris. (which was quite naturally
the exact opposite of what he had always said before)(hmm, I'm gonna have to
get him to make me some row markers) Anyway, he didn't want to help place
each individual clump, just wanted to tell me where to put beds.  He wanted
to do rows, yawn, boring.  Won't even let me run them every-which-way to
make a maze, just boring rows.  But you know what?  I had to start digging
the other day because one of the trades had already arrived and durned if it
wasn't at least easier to dig a straight row than a big wide bed.  And I
think I might even like the effect from the road when they all get
established and bloom 'n stuff.  The trouble of it is now I want to turn the
big wide bed back into lawn and set those cvs in rows.

On a totally different note, I have a notation in my notes about iris I
might want to aquire that describes the falls as Wilson 4 1/3.  I assume
it's one of the colors from one of those attempts to standardize
descriptions that I occasionally hear mutterings about.  Anyway, I have no
idea what color that is.  Can someone fill me in?

Thanks
Christian

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