Re: IRIS-L digest 763 Cult
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- Subject: Re: IRIS-L digest 763 Cult
- From: A* K* <K*@dordt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:35:25 -0600 (MDT)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:03:42 -0600 (MDT)
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From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@erols.com>
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Subject: Re: IRIS-L digest 763 Cult
Reply: Griff, I try to wait until it has frozen more than once.
I've always been told that one should wait until the ground freezes,
but I can't afford to wait that long becanse by then there may well
be snow cover. So I wait until there's been a good hard freeze (if
there is a "good" freeze!) and do it then. Foliage is still green at
that point, but it's the rhizome I care about, not foliage.
Arnold
Arnold Koekkoek wrote:
>
> I'd say you ought to mulch with something that doesn't pack down but
> protects from winter sun.
>
>
Thanks for the advice, Arnold -- but when do you recommend applying the
mulch -- before first freeze -- after?
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA, where the
disastrous winter of 1995-96 heaved up and killed hundreds of
well-rooted, but unmulched, seedlings transplanted in July.
jgcrump@erols.com
Arnold Koekkoek Home Ph. (712) 722-0724
Assoc. Prof. of History Off. Ph. (712) 722-6326
Dordt College e-mail koekkoek@dordt.edu
Sioux Center, IA 51250
