Irises: Cover new irises with straw for first winter?, 1 by husker11

husker11 wrote:
You are a lady after my own heart for I 'love' to experiment. It kind of makes gardening more 'fun'. A 'few', probably 8 years ago, I purchased on QVC~ 'Bill's Perfect' fertilizer 6-11-5. Every couple weeks I sprayed it on all the plants in my rock garden,(this was b-4 my Iris 'olic' Mania set in) and it truly was an awesome product. All my neighbors (3) asked about what I was using? Or maybe they wondered why this old lady was hand spraying flowers all the time. The main ingredients are Phosphate 11% and Total Nitrogen 6%. Why would that simple spray produce bigger & more plentiful flowers?

I haven't used it on my Iris because I'd read the first number should be the lowest. Hmmm, '6' isn't that high. I feel another experiment coming on for next year.