How do I get rid of Iris flowers? I have dug them up and ripped them out and they keep coming back. I am new at this gardening stuff and need help.
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Irises grow out of rizomes -- they look like hairy, stringy roots. You have to dig all that up or they will keep coming back.
Or, if you can't dig them all up, try putting something like a thick tarp over the top of them to block out all the sunlight. This should kill them by next year.
Nonsense. Digging them up is very difficult. Main roots run everywhere. We like to decrease them by 50% every 3 years or they will grow out over everything. Has to be an easier way.
Try posting a free ad at the grocery store or on Freecycle for "you dig" iris. If someone takes the time to come get free plants, they will probably try and get every piece.
Hi, They are definately not easy to dig up. I was trying to dig some up today, and I gave up. I like your idea of freecycle. I think I will try that. Loretta
gosh i wish i lived close i would come and dig them up and bring them here.
You will succeed with the black tarp, but it will take more than one year. Make sure you spread it about two feet wider than the irises. Cover the tarp with a mulch or gravel or concrete pavers. You can put dirt on the irises first so that the tarp has nothing pokey under it. Irises can also find it hard to live if they get mown every week, but the clippings would be toxid I think.
It amazes me that people want to get rid of flowers. LOL Isn't there a meadow or field in all of TEXAS that someone can plant these in? Would be a good project for Girl and Boy Scouts...
Make America beautiful where you can. GG Vi
Native flowers only!
I love flowers but these Iris' are invasive and turn ugly through most of the summer. They are brown and wilted and unsightly! More and more grow every year. Beautiful when bloomed in the Spring and then not so pretty.
Vi, Although they are beautiful when they bloom, an over grown bunch of irises do not bloom. I bought a house that has gone wild for ten years from the last elderly tenants and I have spent the last two years trying to dig up the green plants with no flowers. The neighbors are complaining that it just makes it easier for them to spread to their yard (they are on the fence line).
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