Re: OT ? Labels Cows Eat!

Cheryl,

Great story about the cows.  But I had to gasp at your mention 
of "cutting the irises down."  What does that mean?!  Do you actually 
shear off stalks and leaves after bloom?  What I've always understood 
is stalks, yes, after bloom; but leaves NO until they wither.

You mention local selling.  Does that mean you cut the stalks while 
blooming to sell the rhizomes?  Or dig up the whole thing?  In which 
case, what were the cows munching on.

Patricia Brooks
co-dependent about tortured beloved irises



--- In iris-talk@y..., Cheryl & Erich Schaefer <schaefer@c...> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, I'm afraid I've just been a lurker this past year 
or 
> two and often am months behind reading the digests, but I caught 
this 
> topic and feel I must relate an iris/cow story. The day after 
cutting 
> my irises down in the 400 ft rows we have for local sale in June, 
my 
> elderly neighbor came banging on our door at 7 am shouting, "The 
> Fisher's cows are in the irises!". We flew out the door once we 
were 
> clad, by which time this neighbor, wearing a dressing gown and old 
> fashioned, lace fringed cap, was standing across from the entire 40 
> cow herd, stick in hand, shouting, "Shoo, shoo" at them as they 
> munched side by side along the roadside row. I don't think the 
whole 
> thing would have struck me so funny if it had been June, but I was 
in 
> stitches. (Of course, no camera.) Another neighbor joined us in 
> trying to discourage the feasting at the smorgasbord when a knight 
in 
> shining armor on his noble steed, i.e. the Amish owner of the herd, 
> bareback on a workhorse, came charging down the road, and the herd, 
> oblivious to our shoos and shouts, took off at a run. No harm done 
to 
> the irises but I wish they'd arrived two days sooner and saved us 
the 
> work of cutting them down.
> 
> Cheryl Schaefer, with 21 clumps of rebloomers ready to bloom and 
> another 30 or so in bloom, NOT cut down by the frost 10/8, I 
suppose 
> because it was 70 or better for days afterward. Made it well into 
> November last year. They are so lovely against the backdrop of 
autumn 
> leaves.
> -- 
> Cheryl Schaefer
> schaefer @capital.net
> Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY


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