Re: CULT - RAISED BEDS
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- Subject: Re: CULT - RAISED BEDS
- From: l*@juno.com (lora l masche)
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:15:41 -0700 (MST)
Hi Rima,
Your question about the type of soil I use in my irises beds? We have
excellent soil in the ground from all the pine and ceder trees that very
seldom have I needed to buy soil. The times I have, I buy the best
planting mix possible that has enough mixture of humus etc to hold some
moisture so the water bill doesn't go sky high.
When I plant the irises right into the ground I put bark between the
irises and around them but not covering or touching the rhizome. We
get a lot of rain during winter therefore most of the rhizome sit at
dirt level.
The soil you use sounds fine to me. I have found from the short time
that I have been growing irises, they will grow as long as you don't
plant them too deep and they get rot. If they are going to survive
they will.
I was noticing today while watering: The 96 irises I bought last year
are only doing so so while the older ones are growing better with
greater growth. The soil is the same and I do exactly the same thing to
all of them. Then I have irises that were given to me by a friend when
we had our home built and have not touched them this year with
fertilizer and they are doing just as well as the rest of them or
better. All the old irises started out as one rhizome and have three to
four increases.
Good luck. Hope I have been some help.
Lora
loramasche@juno.com
Volcano, Calif
