CULT- rot
- Subject: CULT- rot
- From: b*
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:35:22 -0000
I have not been on an iris list for a few years. Maybe this subject
has been discussed and I am not using the correct keywords for the
archives.
I have almost given up on growing TB's. First there was the incident
last spring. Just before the first buds opened, my father backed a
trailer load of wood into my wonderful iris from the Spoons. He got
stuck and spun his way out. I saved only 1/2 dozen small rhizomes
from the mush that resulted. This spring we had temps in the 70's &
80's in March which started the iris growing. Then the weather turned
very cold & there is frost damage & rot everywhere.
Digging up several old clumps (Olympic Challenge/Soft Jazz,etc.)
overgrown with grass, I noticed that there was no damage, no rot.
Rhizomes were buried at least an inch in the ground. Beautiful. My
carefully weeded beds are a mess of brown leaves & rot. The soil
freezes & thaws so the rhizomes also wind up over an inch in the
ground. Has anyone had experience growing other stuff interplanted
with the iris to keep the soil dryer? My other idea was to make
raised gravel beds as the Soft Jazz planted that way is looking very
good.
P.S. The garden is on the crest of a hill, soil is mostly gravel. Too
wet conditions are seldom a problem. Zone 4b
Adrienne
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