Re: leaf spots

>Thank you for the information on leaf spot.  Our first club meeting for Big
>Sky Iris will be in April and I have been printing things of interest to
>share with the club.  I have taken advantage of a few weeks of sunny days
>without snow and weeded 11 of 12 iris beds.  The iris rot only showed up in
>Avalon Sunset, Chanpagne Elegance and I lost Cloudy Skies.  We hav abour 400
>iris, so that isn't bad.  Avalon Sunset has alot of new growth.  World News
>has never bloomed for me in 4 years. Several other poor growers are Degas
>Dancer, Crimpson Snow and Twice Thrilling.  I sprinkled Comet on everything
>I weeded.  Costco has the economy 3 pack of large cans.  Over the week-end
>we have 20-30 F. with another foot of snow.  Am thinking about alfalfa
>pellets to just tuck acouple in the ground by each iris, will this work.?
>Making  alfalfa tea sounds like too much work.  If I put the alfalfa pellet
>in the ground by each iris the melting snow between now and June should help
>them dissolve?? or would this be too much for each iris?  Other than bone
>meal I have never used anything.  The rebloomers that I bought and planted
>last year before 4th of July all bloomed in the fall.  Do these rebloomers
>need extra alfalfa after the blooming season to help them bloom again?
>Another iris that has never bloomed for me in 4 years is Breakers.l  Janet &
>Shan ( it is 22 F. and still snowing in Billings Montana)
Dear Janet and Shan: Interesting to hear that BREAKERS has not bloomed for
you. It is quite a grower here, and I have used it in hybridizing. It has
not rebloomed here nor have any of its offspring, oddly enough. Lloyd
Zurbrigg in Durham NC.
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