Alfalfa tea? What about Buckwheat, Spanky and the rest of the "little
rascals"?

Using regular garden fertilizer would be good enough.


Starlord wrote in message
...
Iris will grow in just about any kind of soil, it's just the better the
soil the
better they'll do. I live in the High Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles
and
I've got at lest 200 + iris out in my desert feild garden ( you can see my
blooms at http://desert-iris.netfirms.com/ ) One thing you can make is
alfafa
tea and pour it around the iris and depending on how you make it, till
either
the hay or the pellet mush into the soil and they'll do even better too.

iris-net




"fran" wrote in message
...
I have to question your comment about the soil type for irises. I
have solid clay and while it may have taken a couple more years for
the isires to settle in, they bloom like crazy and have to be thinned
every 3 -4 years. Nor have I amended the soil, except for a small
amount of peat (a 3 sq ft bag dug into a 8 ft by 4 ft plot).

I thin them when the weather starts to cool back down, and have
thinned as late as Thanksgiving (which is 50 degree weather here).

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 23:27:12 GMT, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:

The best time to transplant Irises is after blooming.