RE: TB:CULT:digging up
- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] TB:CULT:digging up
- From: J* R*
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:27:14 -0700
> From: Gerry Snyder[SMTP:gerrysnyder@mediaone.net]
> Debi Schmitt wrote:
> This may sound like a dumb question...but what are the reasons for digging
> them up each year?
>
> Debi, In general, only commercial growers who want to maximize increase
> dig every year. Most of us prefer the effect of two- or three-year
> clumps,
> and sometimes situations make us go to four.
>
> Gerry
>
Three or four years seems about right for most TB cultivars, though some
(Pagan Pink, Persian Berry, Stingray) like to be left alone. I just break
out the dead rhizomes when it seems appropriate. Others (Ebony Dream,
Bengal Tiger) become stunted in a year or two without separation and new
soil.
John Reeds
jreeds@microsensors.com
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