Re: New garden
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: New garden
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:01:13 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Howard Ashley wrote:
> Dear List:
> I have a new garden apartment on Staten Island that actually has a garden.
> It faces south and of course Iris are going to be the featured performers.
> Right now it is quite overgrown with weeds and bushes, I don't imagine it
> has ever been seriously cultivated. I have two questions:
> 1. Is there anything I can do now to prepare the soil for next spring?
> 2. Is it possible for me to have Iris blooms next spring (this spring)
> without planting rizhomes right now; is it even possible to plant rhizomes
> this late? Temperatures are already down to the mid 40's low 50's, winter is
> nearly here. Thanks in advance for any ideas on the subject. Howard A. Ashley
> Ashley@Ingress.Com
Dutch iris bulbs can be planted up until the ground freezes and
produce something the next June just after the TB's. You might try
I reticulata bulbs too.
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Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
