Re: CULT-COMPOSTING


art bern wrote:
> 
> rimat wrote:
> >
> > OK Everybody --
> > I am confused.  If you throw a mother rhyzome in the compost heap hoping
> > it's going to rot and it ends of sending up lots of increases (my new
> > word), why don't you just replant it somewhere so that it can keep
> > sending up the increases and you have lots more iris?
> > Rima  terra@catskill.net
> 
> Rima,
> 
> Rick Tasco had the best answer. Why compost old rhizomes? I know the heat is supposed to kill weed seeds etc. But I've got news for someone. Who knows what lurks in the old rhizome. Maybe the Shadow knows, but I sure dont. I feel anything that I put into the trash can is really trash. Everything else is composted.

Al Bullock 
email b0325@erols.com



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