Re: weeds, damping off?
- Subject: Re: weeds, damping off?
- From: "Tanya" t*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:52:00 -0000
The quack crass is killing me! It is over running all of my beds...
The stuff grows over night! I have plucked,pulled, stomped, sprayed
and cussed... it's still there. Going to try using Preen next year.
Linda I am about 3 hours away from you in VA can you send some of
that rain this way? We just got a sprinkle this past Saturday. We
watched the TN game and it was pouring we were hot and dry! It
flooded us early in spring and we lost about 50 iris to rot, like you
we will not order that variety again. I need tough Iris that can
stand the weather, I don't have time to baby them.
Tanya
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
> Lorraine in 100 degree California heat asked:
> <My question is: how did you handle the sun on these happy
plants on
> the first few days of full "hot" sun? >
>
> The short answer to <how did I handle> the negative effects of
abrupt
> exposure to direct sun & heat is <with respect at the funerals>
<g> I
> don't sell irises, don't do much trading, & am obsessed with
getting a
> collection of only the very toughest TBs for my growing conditions.
>
> The longer answer - I waited till it was in the 'cool' 80s to start
> excavating irises from the weeds, thinking we were out of the 90s
for
> the year, then temps went back into the upper 90s and some of the
newly
> exposed irises did get sun/heat damage on some of the foliage. They
> bleached a bit. But once temps settled into the 80s more
consistently,
> & I was able to get back to chopping out the jungle, they were fine.
>
> Keep in mind that I am merciless about getting rid of cultivars that
> can't take the humidity/rain and heat, so those that get soft rot
(damp
> off), in those conditions are welcome to die.
>
> With all the rain, a few of the newly planted cultivars have lost a
leaf
> or two, rotting off at the base, but most are fine. In spite of
> torturing seedlings ahead of time, two or three of the 100 or so,
still
> fairly small, seedlings from this spring that I've lined out
recently
> have died.
>
> I should add that, except for a small area of quack grass (or is it
crab
> grass??) all of these weeds are single stalked, tall, with most of
the
> foliage up above the ground. Even the foxtail millet is tall and
leafy
> above the ground, until it gets knocked down and matted. Dense
grasses
> and clover are bad news - most irises definitely don't thrive with
those
> as <companion plants>. I do try to keep them completely eliminated
from
> the iris rows.
>
> Forecast sounds like we are going to be swimming by the weekend!
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
>
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