Re: CULT: Cyber trial gardens

In a message dated 9/5/2005 11:23:07 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
GMason1052@aol.com writes:

.<<  I personally don't have any iris that  compete  well with 
cattails or quackgrass.>>
 
Hit the wrong button.  It's getting to be a habit.  
 
<<<It is true that each and every competitor  (weed) is not pulled at all 
times.  I am but one person and they are  many.  I get them when and as I can.  
Last year, I purchased 256  different cultivars.  Several of them were multiple 
rhizomes.  (No  wonder my back hurts!)  These rhizomes were all planted in my 
garden.   They all shared the same caregiver . . . me. I will select a random 
 (not backed by scientific date . . . counting) number.   >>> 


To pick up . . . For the sake of this example I will say that 212 of those  
irises have survived to this point in time.  The LIVING irises are (in some  
cases) further apart than they once were!  
 
The only point I really want to make is this:  All 256 different  cultivars 
were in the same garden, being cared for by the same imperfect human,  me.    
If I did something wrong, and I freely admit I could have,  why are many so 
very happy??? Allowing for microcosms, they were all  treated the same.  
 
For the record, I did not go count the happy survivors.  Just plucked  a 
number from thin air.  
 
 
 
Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6 (stick a fork in me) 
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