Re: CULT: Soil types..Loess
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Soil types..Loess
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:15:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Patrick O'Connor wrote:
>
> Have you grown irises in loess soils? I would have thought that Louisianas
> would not be suited to loess soil but that bearded iris would. However, my
> experience this past year in New Orleans in growing Louisianas in a
> brought-in mix of composted materials (90 percent) and sharp sand, has
> turned me around. This very loose and sandy mix has produced the biggest
> rhizomes I have seen. The irises grow much better than in the native
> soils, even with lots of compost added. Live and learn. Perhaps loess
> soils would produce simmilar results.
>
> Patrick
>
Yes, the biggest rhizomes on LA's I have ever produced have
occurred in my loess bog. I do add a lot of peat moss and finely chipped
pine bark and needles and lots of acid fertilizer, too. JI's do extremely
well in this soil as well. I have also begun to had more versicolors,
species, and spec-x's. I am looking forward to greater bloom next
year on the versilaevs and whatever you call LITTLE CAILLET (LA X
virginica). I cannot decide whether to put Christy Hensler's things here
are not. They are JI X SIB.
Back to the hills, it is funny there are no Tunica hills in Tunica
County, MS, where all of the casinos are.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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