Re: CUL: Doing Everything Wrong

Well Kathy, just to help you out a little.  We dig iris when ever we want to.  We
have about 100 iris per bed and we just emptied 3 beds.  We did wait until the
bloom finished because I wanted to look at the blooms.  Linda on the other hand
would have dug them during bloom.  We have been doing this for years and have
never lost an iris that I am aware of.  We also use a balanced fertilizer twice a
year and super phosphate in the fall or whenever we replant.  Mulch, we do that
through the winter months.  We do take care of rot.  But that may change next
year.  Linda has been saying if one or two iris of a certain variety develops rot
when the rest do not then something must be wrong with them to begin with.  I have
been fighting her over rot this year so we may do nothing about it next and see
what happens.

Glenn

Glenn & Linda Simmons
Springfield, Missouri  Zone 6


Irisborer wrote:

> As I walk through my iris beds where I've done everything right.... and there
> are only labels where irises should be.  I ponder those folks who don't grow
> their irises correctly - yet have far better luck than I do!!  In fact, some
> folks don't even KNOW that you can't dig up irises when they're in bloom - and
> so they do it and the earth does NOT stop spinning.
>
> So..... I proclaim as follows.  In one bed, I intend to do everything wrong.
> I will dig the irises when it suits me - rather than at the right time (Dana
> Borglum ONLY digs during bloom).
>
> I will mulch bearded irises
>
> I will fertilize with a balanced fertilizer
>
> I will let rot alone
>
> I will either learn that not every iris rule is written in stone - or I will
> have a whole new bed for planting NEW irises   (:
>
> Kathyguest - E. Aurora, NY - where my clump of SMOOTH SEAS (siberian, very
> tall and royal blue) next to a pseudacorus would bring Martha Stewart AND
> Gertrude Jeykll to their knees
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