Re: OT-BIO Katie Long

Katie wrote:
> 
> Howdy from the Wild West!
>         My name is Katie and I live in La Grande, Oregon.  That's in NE Oregon in
> the Grande Ronde River valley.  Most on-line USDA Zone searches say this is
> Zone 5 but the USDA Map (large enough to paper my livingroom wall) says I'm
> in Z 6a.  Sunset says we're Zone 2 but I don't know that this area ever
> gets that cold in the winter.
>         I'm just about to get into iris growing and have already had one of my
> questions answered by reading your posts.  Very good info!  But more
> questions have been generated from postings.  For instance, (I'm truly
> green) what is the TB, JA, SP, SDB, etc.  I think I've figured out the JI
> and SI (tough ones huh?).  Well, I hope to learn a lot more from you.
>         A friend has dozens of (unknown) iris that need to be divided and shared
> (I'm the lucky one) and this will be my start in iris gardening.  I even
> have a few of her seeds that I might try to cultivate.  What I need to know
> is whether it's too late to dig & divide.  We just had our first hard
> freezes the last couple of nights.  No snow, ground is diggable.  What do
> we need to do?
>         Most of what I did this year was veggie gardening with some beauties
> inserted for eye appeal.  Planted some new roses, and did lots of canning -
> good year for tomatoes.  One of my favorite books is 'Carrots Love
> Tomatoes' by Louise Riotte.  Her suggestion for repelling the Cucumber
> Beetle is to interplant radish with the cucumbers allowing them to go to
> seed.  The plants are very small even when allowed to go to seed.  Would
> this work with iris too?  She also says that cucumber beetles can be
> trapped by filling shallow containers 3/4 full of water with the addition
> of some cooking oil.  Couldn't hurt.
>         Don't think I'm up for all these society memberships just yet, but who
> knows what the future will bring.  I'm a disabled Army veteran with time on
> my hands for gardening and the like.  I've really enjoyed the list and will
> look forward to any input you have.
> *******************
> Katie
> La Grande, OR, US
> USDA Zone 5b/6a
> e-mail: kael@oregontrail.net
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>                 -- George Bernard Shaw
> *******************
Hi Katie--

Welcome to the list.  Anyone who reads GBS I count as a friend. And now
also a fellow iris beginner gardener.
Rima  terra@catskill.net
upstate ny   zone 4
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