Re: OT-Chat: I'm back

It's almost painful to read about someone else's move.
 I *hate* moving and am now looking at the possibility
of doing just that in the next month or two.  All my
LA's are in buckets or tubs and will be fairly easy to
do with a bit of young muscular assistance
(son-in-law)  However, what about the TB's?  I haven't
planted this years aquisitions yet.  Figure I ought to
pot them.  (I've been through this before and hated
it!)  Jan has my sympathy.
Wendy, the irises are tougher than we suppose.  Some
people moved a mobil home, (manufactured home) from a
lot behind me and had to go through my yard.  I dug up
all plants that were in the path of it but they
*still* managed to run the house over a row of them. 
They all survived!  So tires and heifer hooves are not
to be feared after all!  :)

Carol in TX zone 8b.  Is still plenty of time for
planting here.  Unseasonably cool!


--- wendy sargeant <wendon@dcsi.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> Great to hear that you have made the move and
> survived the ordeal:) Also
> glad to hear that all the iris babies made it as
> well.I use my horse float
> for moving tricky specimens and find its enclosed
> quarters very secure from
> strong breezes, its bettter than the back of my ute
> any day...
>     Uh OH ..Sounds like you are going to have a bit
> of fun and games with
> your septic run off area..Fancy driving over the run
> off and aggie
> lines..Grr..It will look like a battlefield for a
> while but as you know,
> growing plants tend to hide all sorts of yuck..
> As to trading..No problems, just let me know in the
> next few months when you
> are nearly all settled in and can handle planting
> newbies...I have more new
> JIs this year and they are budding up already and
> doing well, despite being
> trodden on whilst dormant by big heifers hooves.Don
> thought it would be a
> good idea to walk the cows from one driveway to the
> other and didnt realise
> that my massive trench was planted...Yes I did
> shriek, but surprisingly they
> are all ok, including the greedy heifer who ate 2
> plastic labels..Honestly
> my place is a madhouse.I must find a better way of
> labelling my plants.I
> keep loosing the labels via either strong winds and
> greedy animals who are
> already overweight....Any one got any good ideas?
> Maybe labels with massive
> spikes so they can really be ancored into the
> ground. But heavens know where
> one gets those.There are a few downfalls with rural
> life...availability of a
> few things can be limiting...
> Anyhow Glad to hear you are in you new home Jan, and
> surrounded by packing
> boxes no doubt...Cheers from Wendy
> Sargeant.Victoria, Australia.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
> To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:34 AM
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT-Chat: I'm back
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > wendy wrote:
> > P.S. Wonder how Jan is getting on with her move?
> >
> > Well, we have accomplished the move, and I still
> have a bout 5 trailer
> loads
> > of plants to shift from castlemaine. I am trying
> to get all the TB's moved
> > before they bloom, so that the bloom stalks don't
> snap off in the shift.
> > The SDB's IB's and AB's came first.
> > Travelling at 80kph with a trailer load of irises,
> causes fairly minimal
> > damage, just a little bit of shredding on the
> tips, which makes them look
> > tatty. Travelling at 100kph causes much more leaf
> damage, and tends to
> tilt
> > the rhizomes so that the plants lean away from the
> wind, and stay that
> way.
> > I only made that mistake once.
> > The trip takes 40 minutes unloaded, and 1 hour
> loaded up. Any plants that
> > are tender, or have bloom stalks, travel in the
> boot (trunk), or in the
> car
> > with me.
> > I have had bloom on my AB Fankhauser seedlings,
> but couldn't find the
> camera
> > to get shots of them. Some are still blooming, so
> I will make an all out
> > effort tomorrow, when I will be home all day, to
> dig through the piles of
> > boxes and find the camera.
> > SDB's and IB's blooming:
> > Scion, Furioso, Murmur, Raspberry Jam, Hot Seat,
> Baby Blessed, It's a
> > Giggle, Little Buccaneer, Hum, many others I can't
> think of names.
> > I have had quite a number of seedlings bloom. Some
> nice ones again this
> year
> > from Cherry Child X Yes. Lots more buds on
> seedlings.
> > Better find that camera!
> >
> > The 'wet area' problem is major. The previous
> owners had never emptied the
> > septic tank, so the have had an overflow of
> solids, leaving a green scum
> in
> > areas. Also it looks as if they have driven over
> the drainage lines and
> > bloken the aggie pipes. We are looking into a high
> tech solution which
> will
> > free the garden of septic drainage. Thes will
> leave me with sufficient wet
> > areas for what I want to grow. The lower part of
> the block stays damp most
> > of the year.
> > Wendy - I look forward to doing some JI and
> Bearded trades with you, when
> > you are ready. I hope to get most of my Beardeds
> planted out by the end of
> > Autumn, and will have plenty to trade.
> > Cheers, Jan,
> > In Creswick Australia, where the top soil is deep,
> wet and gluggy, and the
> > beds will be well raised.
> >
> >
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