Re: Iris

Someone told me to fertilize with fish emulsion.  Anyone have any feedback?

Marie
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From: Pat Mitchell <pat-mitchell@juno.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Saturday, May 30, 1998 9:51 PM
Subject: Iris


>Here's my take on the bearded Iris question.  I have had unblooming
>Irises for years.  One or two early in the season and that was it - but
>always great foliage.  This year I began to fertilize my flowers for the
>first time in my gardening life.  I previously figured that if something
>bloomed, I was lucky.  A friend encouraged me to fertilize - whether
>organically with compost, or with one of the myriad of flower boosters on
>the market.
>
>Sure enough - I have madly blooming Irises.  I had miniatures bloom, the
>medium (grape kool-aid smelling) lavender blooms and now the tall bearded
>Irisies that show no end in sight to their blooms.  I'm shocked, to say
>the least.  
>
>I'm not giving all the credit to the fertilizer I chose, however.  We've
>had an exceedingly mild winter and spring which might have contributed to
>my bounty.  I have Zantedeschia (Calla Lillies) that I forgot to lift in
>the fall, on the verge of flowering today.  That's almost unheard of here
>in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin (in an average year).
>
>Just my two cents .  . . .YMMV
>
>Pat
>USDA Zone 5 (SE Wisconsin)
>Pat-Mitchell@juno.com
>
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