Re: what's wrong in my sib-JI bed?
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] what's wrong in my sib-JI bed?
- From: e*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:37:49 EDT
In a message dated 5/26/02 10:36:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca writes:
<< anyone know how long it would take to get the rhizomes free of the low
pH inside them. Can anyone suggest anything else I could do? >>
I would say a few words here because you are in my part of the world. First
- not all Siberians grow well in every garden. Some of them do not grow well
anywhere and some of them are unfortunately not as hardy as they have always
been reported to be.
If you have a cultivar that does not do well for you over a period of a few
years, get rid of it and replace it with one that does. There are so many.
You probably do not need to amend the soil for JI's. Unles you are in a
notoriously high alkaline soil area, the JI's will be OK in average soil no
matter how much is written on the subject. On lists there are often folks
who grow and breed and live and breather one genus of plants. Then the
cultural information becomes so specialized other ordinary fanciers try tons
of products and procedures that are often unnecessary. I have JI's that
bloom in the garden with no special care. Pick plants with smaller flowers
and less PR.
I have Siberians growing well in moderately rich, often dry soils and those
that like it here do very well. Some never grow beyond a few fans and
actually decrease in size.
Pull out your sick Siberians and replant with a few shovels full of ordinary
garden soil. You may have to wait a second year to get good growth and
flowering. The huge flowering clumps of the older hybrids are not part of
the newer hybrids.
You could leave those older hybrids in place for more than ten years and
still have flowering and healthy leaves. Sometimes, we do not leave well
enough alone.
Sadly, there is no guide for which Siberians grow well and where they grow
well. A rating system started some years back was a good thing but not
accepted by the growers and sellers so it is not universally known.
I pull out the poor doers after the flowering is over and plant in rows in
the veg garden. If anything looks like it might have possibilities, I
replant it in a new location. Some do, some don't.
The best advice I the the seat of the pants advice - look for the word
vigorous in sale lists and catalogs and try to see a clump growing near you
that looks vigorous and healthy. Siberians are so nice to have in the mixed
borders, for me it will be June, that giving space to ailing plants is now
not part of my gardening scheme.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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