Re: MULCH
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] MULCH
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- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:57:24 -0600
From: "Carryl M. Meyer" <carrylm@bigsky.net>
Most of western Montana is clay--yucky stuff that becomes hard as a
rock--especially when one is trying to dig the rhizomes--a month or so ago,
at a Home Base in Spokane, we found some bags of 'stuff to add to clay
ground' and it really is working--cannot remember the name of it, and the
sacks are gone, but if it is worked into the ground, it helps to break up
the clay--now all I have to do is go back and get several large truck-fulls
of it.
A friend grows her iris in Pea Gravel--she sets the rhizome on the ground,
then adds about 3 inches of pea gravel--the roots go down into the
soil--the gravel works well as mulch--the water drains away--but
unfortunately the weeds will grow in the gravel--but are easier to pull
than from soil--
I have several terraces with Iris on them--out on the corner where the wind
blows all the weed seeds onto the beds--so I use bark--large size--as a
mulch--the bark has been there for at least 10 years now--with no damage to
the Iris--also--weeds are easier to pull--the only problem there is--the
Iris seem to grow shorter there than in the upper yard--think they are
suffering from Carbon Monoxide poisoning--from the diesel busses which stop
on the corner--
Carryl in western Montana--where I counted over 400 variety in bloom
yesterday at our club garden--even some early Spurias are about to burst
forth!!
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