Re: Culture: digging irises up
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- Subject: Re: Culture: digging irises up
- From: M* T* <t*@flash.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:23:43 -0600 (MDT)
John I Jones wrote:
>
>
> Amy, Al, et. al.
>
> As has been said before, especially on this list, there are no
> absolutes.
>
> So the first rule is: Do what suits you, your growing environment and
> the particular cultivar.
Okay, here's the deal in my little square of dirt by the driveway.
(It's a good thing irises are really hardy, backing out of the driveway
is REALLY difficult for me, and, more than once, one of the back
wheels went into an iris garden. Thankfully, not MY iris garden, but
still...) Anyway, like I said about 3 years ago, I have an
approximately 3X4 garden that, 2 years ago, had 12 rhizomes in 4
rows. Now it has fans all over the place, and I'm afraid that some of
the irises that haven't bloomed, or were stunted (paging Degas Dancer)
for 2 years in a row may be being crowded out.
And since I may or may not be getting close to 100 new rhizomes this
year (due to the generosity of a few people, including my parents; and
the largest catalog order of iris ever by anyone under the age of 32
;-) ) It only makes sense to go ahead and dig everything up. Right?
Rusty
USDA 7b
Sunset 33
