Re: "T-giving?"
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: "T-giving?"
- From: g*@well.com (Gail Russell)
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:02:45 -0700 (PDT)
>In a message dated 96-09-13 21:44:14 EDT, you wrote:
>
>>
I have read in several spots that it is best to
>>keep iris beds as "clean" as possible before winter. You should wait till
around T-giving to cut
>down your foliage...and then don't cut it off completely, but leave a perky
>little 4 or 5 inches sculpted to an arrow shape (picture this < as the
>top of your fan). The theroy on this is that you want to leave it as long as
>it's green... but then cut it off to fend off disease and the d.i.b. (dreaded
>irisborer).
>
>And that's the word from Kathy Guest in the Buffalo, NY burbs
Kaythy,
What is T-giving
>
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