RE: CULT: Preen (was Pot culture utopia)

Janet you are so right!  Any weed stopped is
great!
Char, New Berlin WI

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net
[o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Janet
Stromborg
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 7:59 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Preen (was Pot culture
utopia)


Preen has been a godsend for me.  One of my raised
iris beds is right 
next to my husband's native prairie restoration
project and some of 
those native Wisconsin forbs and grasses can be
downright invasive in a 
newly cultivated plot.  I put the Preen down in
the spring after the 
last frost date, and again in late summer/early
fall as the forbs and 
blue stem grasses are beginning to flower and go
to seed. It doesn't 
work against invading rhizomatous grasses that
come up from below, but 
it does keep the seeds from germinating in the
iris beds.  Any little 
bit of weed control that doesn't involve pulling
is a good thing in my 
book.

Janet in Denmark WI
zone 4

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DWiris@aol.com>
>> I have not used Preen. I've read that it is
only good on non-grassy 
>> weeds, and assumes that you have a weed-free
bed to start with.

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