Re: ROT

From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>

Donald writes:

>Aargh!!  It is your original post about the drouth breaking which has me
>so anxious.  I am still in the midst of it with no end in sight except
>possible
>showers tomorrow - right before I have to leave for a weekend out of town.
>Now I'll worry about coming back to an epidemic of rot.  Oh well.  I need
>the
>rain anyway.

Reviewing the various posts we've seen this week on bacterial rot, I've
learned that it seems to behave differently in different gardens, so maybe
you'll come home to find everything healthy and fit.

Isn't it interesting how different we all are? I'm sure some of the
variation in our reported observations comes from various levels of
experience and knowledge (surely other people are as new with irises as I
am), but not all of it. Things behave differently in different gardens.

I stopped at the State Capitol to check on the 300 newly planted rhizomes
we put there this summer, to make sure they weren't rotting away, and found
NO rot. None. They are all set atop mounds with the rhizomes completely
uncovered by soil -- only the roots tucked in.

Meanwhile, across town in very similar soil -- in fact, soil from the same
supplier -- my friend Linda's irises have used up 12 gallons of bleach
since September. Hers began life atop mounds, but after two years of
settling (or maybe of being buried by earthworms, as Bill suggests?) now
they are partially buried ... and rotting apace.

I'm not having anywhere near so much trouble (I've only used 1.5 gallons of
bleach), but last year when the plants were less hunkered down -- and it
didn't stay hot so late in the year -- I only lost one TB, NIGHT EDITION,
and it was planted in a hole.

So interesting.

celia
s*@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
-----------------------------------
257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons



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