Re: Moving siberians in the fall - don't.

In a message dated 8/14/02 4:30:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ellengalla@yahoo.com writes:

<< I am worn out but maybe that is because I am dividing
 irises and replanting, etc. I do water effusively
 (using the archaic meaning to "pour profusely" :-)
 when moving plants (not limited to irises) but
 especially Siberians. I keep it up until frost >>

Ellen, I also need to water by hand with plastic watering cans as that is all 
I can carry when at it for an hour or so.   (I have only plastic now because 
of the weight) Having well water, there is no hose, no sprinkler and only 
automatic me so I water almost nothing except the plants in containers 
(growing numbers of these each year).

We have to use cistern or rain collected water for the gardens so this 
severely limits what you decide to water and when.  It has not been too bad 
this summer with rain for us although all around us have much drier 
conditions.

Fall moving just never works for me unless I dig up an entire clump and move 
intact which is hard to do with a large one.  I have found that taking them 
apart in April does not stop normal growth.  I have moved them with chunks of 
frost still in the soil.

The heat is going on and on.  It is hard to look out at the still very hot 
air where we usually have some kind of movement, windy usually, and know that 
in  three weeks we could have a frost.  A great many flowering plants lost 
flower buds in a late May hard frost here. The apple orchards along the 
Hudson have damages from that one.  It is just so peculiar to be cranking up 
the A/C today and will be looking at the thermostats in just weeks.

I don't know how you all do it in the south, this is too much for me.

Claire Peplowski  
East Nassau, NY 


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