I work so hard in the fields. Just a peak at what next spring will bring! Almost done for this season, and the rains starts up again. Only 6 more bales of straw to scatter, and a few other tasks and I'm calling it a wrap for this year! This fall we mowed down most of our perennial rows, and some of the shrub rows w/the brush cutter. Amazing what the tractor can do verses me and my pruners! As I work in the iris, I of course consider how much work they require from me. Pretty much from spring till fall they need something. Start in the spring with uncovering, removing any dead leaf material, one hand weeding, maybe some fertilizing, inventoring who didn't survive winter, analyzing them for sale, pricing, tagging, listing, making their photo cards, prepping for showing, hand weeding again, digging orders, calling customers, once, twice, three times....., digging, dividing, replanting my stock for next year, hand watering w/water I hauled in, another weeding, cutting back their leaves with a scissors, covering for winter. So far I have spent 20 hrs. just covering them. So whats my point? Didn't I pick this job? Yes, and I love it. But I keep thinking about the lady that picked out one of the cheapest at the farmers market, a $4 rhizome, and said "how many do I get for $4?" My teeth nearly fell out. How many do you GET for $4. ONE, you get ONE. No, in fact for you I am going to cut it in 1/2, you only get a 1/2 for $4. Of course I didn't actually use that rant although I would have loved to....After looking at each iris face to face 12+ times a year, it's difficult to think they should be sold for anything less than $20 each! Wouldn't that be nice! Let me clarify that iris are not this much work in the home garden, actually they are fairly care free.
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