Sorry for skipping week four. The weather has been crappy (although today is unexpectedly beautiful) and I did very little in the garden last week. I’m worried about all the rain splitting my fruit, but so far so good. My cilantro is growing like crazy. I keep trimming it back so it doesn’t bolt before I have something to cook it with. I bought some orange roughy or some sort of fish filets that were on sale this week. I have a mango that needs to be eaten, I think I see some sort of mango chili fish dish in the near future.
For the most part the garden is exceeding expectations. All of my pepper plants are going like gang busters. My red chili has ten or more peppers, the yellow bell and orange bells are doing great. The regular green bell has been trying to die for weeks. It’s pale and small despite having the same treatment and location as the others.
The tomatoes are a bit of a mixed bag. The cheat plant is doing great and has six decent size tomatoes. The yellow pear is producing small fruit, the orange jubilee is trying. It’s in the bulb garden do its best to fight for nutrients. In the side yard, the early girl has several fruits on schedule to be ready in about three weeks. The pink brandywine is a huge and healthy plant, but the flowers appear to be dying. The newest plant the san marzano is not particularly happy either and the flowers may be doing the same thing. I think they need more water. I got kind of lazy with all the rain.
I also can’t figure out why my spray bottle is not spraying anymore, so the pepper plants are still being eaten. The marigolds apparently didn’t get enough water either.
Instead of getting out in the day today, I suddenly felt the urge to go through all the junk mail. File my bank and tax records and pay bills. I have to get that stuff when the mood strikes.
Still left on the to do list, I have to renew my Driver’s License, might as well get my passport photo while I am out in the world with a bra on and brushed hair, get an emissions test, get my registration sticker, call the insurance people and have collusion removed, get new tires, get new brakes, get the car washed and cleaned and perhaps even take a shower. Oh and I also need a window that needs replacing.
I’m not someone who deals well with deadlines and things that “have to get done.” So the list is a bit overwhelming. Did you know you need to bring a certified birth certificate, a bill sent to your house, and a social security card or W-2 to update the damn driver’s license with your photo on it that they already issued you? Oh and if your name is different from your birth name you have to bring marriage/divorce papers, or some other official court document. I SHOULD REMIND YOU, I ALREADY HAVE A DRIVERS LICENSE. NOTHING HAS changed. I also need to pay them $32 for this. I am also paranoid I will fail the eye exam.
Anyway, these are my worries and concerns on this three-day holiday. I’m looking forward to the season finale of Killing Eve tomorrow night. Also the season finale of Trust. With Southern Charm NOLA in the mix I’m not sure I will get to them both tomorrow night though.
Please tell me the rest of you are at the beach, or a pool party, or working in the garden or something exciting. I’m about to take Banjo on a car ride to the beer store. Whoopee! I don’t usually watch Bravo on the weekends but I was doing paperwork and not really paying attention. I deserved to be mocked for the fact I am on my third Rom Com. #Pathetic
Let’s try to avoid bad things like sickness, disease, death, (pet or human) divorce, plagues, sexual assaults, missing children, nuclear war, politics, orphans, gangs, car accidents, broken bones, broken dolls, broken hips, being broke, or the looming Armageddon, Instead let’s talk about the weather, gardening, sunshine, flowers, puppies, food, drink, swimming, boating, ocean waves, cookouts and our happy places. Mkay?
Can’t believe you’re talking about tomatoes. It’s just been safe to consider planting them here in CT for a couple of weeks (and not even then, if you live in the Northwest hills). I’m waiting for my dahlias to emerge from the soil. Out of sixteen, so far only one has popped through. Up here you can’t leave them in the ground over winter. Some people pull up the tubers and store them. I just spend the extra money each year because it’s so much less work.
Took my son to see “Solo” this afternoon. Because it was 91 degrees and everyone’s at the beach or at a barbecue, there were 4 other people at the 12:30 show. Love it when it’s like a private showing! Possibilities of a supper or luncheon date with friends Monday. My spousal unit is at his 40th college reunion today and will head to Foxborough Stafium tomorrow and possibly Monday for the NCAA lacrosse championships. I like lacrosse played on the green fields of a small New England college, but hate Foxborough.
Yep. Ours are going in next weekend in MA.
TT go to Arizona. Our driver licenses last 30 years or something ridiculous. I’m too tired to get off my ass and look in my purse but I’m only on my second DL in my entire life minus my international one. Spending the summer in PA so I don’t spontaneously combust and have 5 huge tomato plants that are blooming, should be eating and canning in 2 weeks! Good luck on the DL, I’d seriously consider a round trip ticket to Phoenix and a lifelong drivers license. I now need my passport to get on a national flight. Insert eye roll.
Yup. Mine expires in 2038!!
I thought that in Georgia you could renew online. Even here in my backward as Hell state of NC, I was able to renew my liscense and my car tag at .
I remember going to the DMV in Sandy Springs to get my learners permit on a Saturday with a million other people and being scared shitless.
*License* My auto-correct day drinks!
I license is one of the words I always misspell like “desperate” and “restuarant” They last ten years and I have never had to do all of this before to my recollection. My bank teller mistakenly thought my license had already expired and wasn’t going to deposit my IRS refund into my longstanding account with my name on it.
I think ten years is long enough. There are a lot of people who are blind as bats driving out there. Especially in AZ and FL. IJS. God will probably make me fail my eye test for that remark.
I think ours here in NC is eight years at a time. Since it had been about 8 years since my last DMV in person visit, I was surprised that I was able to do it all online.
I live in PA and we have to renew every 4 years and every time the fees go up too!
True story. When my mom went to get her first driver’s license, she didn’t want to wear her glasses in the picture. They would have made her do it if she had to have them on for the eye test.
Her best friend went to take her test the day before, and somehow WROTE DOWN the letters. My mom memorized them, and CHEATED on her eye exam.
I heard the people in front of me last time. I didn’t know if they were right but the letters were small then and I didn’t even need readers!
No bad news here. Only joy in my heart. On vacation for 2 weeks at Yosemite, Sequoia. Stunning nature overload. Hope my garden’s still alive when i get back!
YAY! That sounds amazing. I have a summer birthday and would usually go somewhere for a week and it was always right when all the damn ditch lilies that take over everything bloom and the first tomatoes come. My dog is too aggressive to board and the last dog sitter was NOT WILLING to come back. LOL. #ghettoproblems
I think they just started with the cert BC wiith both your parents name on it and your marriage license if your name is different . What a pain in the ass to get a passport. Of course we then had to pay to expediate it cause it was so long to get the paperwork on order.
Good planting here. Bought this house last year and the yard was crap. No grass on the sides or back yard. Had to cut down 30 some trees. We now have grass on both sides and a big patch in the backyard. Today we put down mulch to create a “nature area” under the big trees in the back. Planted hosta my MIL gave and it is going good over there. It is a ton of work but man it feels good to say WE did it. Got my eye on some day Lillie’s I will be getting from her yard in the fall. I still can’t get over what a difference a year makes. Next year we will be super set on the yard situation. One step at a time.
Who cut down 30 trees? Are you a millionaire? I have a tree phobia. I told my lawn kid a few weeks ago that a tree that had already fallen on my fence once (broke off from the top) was about to fall again. Two days later, it fell in the yard it grew in directly up their back staircase.
They were sooo big hanging over the house….nope had to go! So tall there was NO light in the master and blocking out light in the neighbors bonus room….above…the fricken garage. And we had to take some of the money from selling other house to pay for cutting (it was that or sell myself and old lady didn’t do it for them).
I guess what I am asking is what kind of trees were they and how much does it cost to cut down 30 trees? I’d like to know for a friend who maybe has 15 that she look at every day and wonders what direction they may fall an lives in a paper shack in the ghetto. And how you find someone who knows what the fuck they are doing and AND DON’T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS which is why I am trying to move , I mean she is trying to move. after some sort or Suburu world tour with the damn dog (that hopefully takes years) Only on the commercials of the dog bucket list, they act like there are good hotels that TAKE DOGS.
I had 20 taken down it was $10k. I can email you the company they are here in Roswell
Jesus…what kind? I have overgrown cypress trees that I really want to be someone else’s problem, apparently.
It was about $7k all together. Was a local company here in Noth Carolina. Not sure they would go that far but I will email you their info. They still drive by and blow the horn cause….country, and I brought them Gatorade cause it was HOT,
All well here. Garden coping with very mixed weather. Pulled out big, very old ceanothus and have replaced it – new one away and laughing already. I wonder if you also cook down and then freeze your tomatoes as passata, TT? We end each season with masses in the flat takeaway containers, and it keeps the taste of summer going all year around.
I don’t understand a thing you are saying. What are you pulling out? What is in the “flat take away containers? Is this a mafia thing? 🙂 Seriously, I am missing the points here.
We are socked in with rain this weekend but I don’t care because I’M GOING TO BIMINI ON MY FRIEND’S YACHT NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!
I don’t care if I sound pretentious because I’m being pretentious. I couldn’t afford the gas the gas on this boat for the trip. It’s a yacht. It’s 72 feet and I’m going to Bimini!
In other news, I’m going to Bimini for my birthday.
Did you have to fill out a preference sheet???????
I’m so happy for you! I don’t think you need much gas for Bimini. Especially if the yacht has sails. Happy Birthday and gave a great time!
Thank you!!!! No sails but you are correct, only 50 miles or so!
Plants are doing great now that they have plenty of sun and rain. Planned to camp down in the gulf for a couple of days but now they are closing the parks due to the stupid storm. So staying home cooking ribs and floating in the pool.
I heard something about a stupid storm on the way to the beer store. I figure that storm sucked up all of out wetness and that is how today was so nice. Here we go again with hurricane season. This i why I used to like going to Curacao for my birthday. BUT the five mile walk through the airport in MIA and the shakedown in by customs on the way home is so traumatizing… It totally undoes the whole trip for me.
http://tamaratattles.com/2013/06/27/my-customs-interragation-story-aka-mia-airport-sucks-donkey-ass/
Hi. Newport Beach, CA here. Finally we have sun since it’s been May Gray ALL darn month. My plants are doing goid. Tried tomatoes a few years back and one morning they were crawling with HUGE green worms. Freaked me out. Jasmine is blooming. Sitting out there tomorrow to knit. Yoga closed till Tuesday, boo. Saw Shannon driving around the other week. She’s smaller than she looks on tv. Bought this loose passion fruit tea for iced tea. Delicious but it’s full of caffeine so I washed the big windows. Husband in bed already listening to the police scanner for Chicago (we live there also). It’s a hell hole. Sounds dull to you all probably but I like it dull. Happy Memorial Day to every single veteran and God bless this country. It’s still the best place on earth.
My dad still lives in Orange County, and he’s been telling me about how intense the May Gray has become since I returned home two weeks ago. I know it can be irritating when you have to live through it all the time. I guess I have a new appreciation for it, now that I live in a desert that’s defined by its heat and sunshine.
Plants are great, havested from the one I bought that was grown already. I really thought that would be the one to die.
When I went to get my passport renewed my picture was deemed unusable because my bangs had slipped down on my face. I was really behind, I thought I had a year left and airline tickets were already purchased. I had no time. I let the lady at the passport office retake my picture. No makeup, messy hair, Daytona Beach Tshirt – oh well. This picture will scare children and animals. I am stuck with it for 10 years unless I want to pay for another passport. I think I want to pay for a new passport. I will be holding a home grown tomato in the new one.
I am apparently physically incapable of taking a good, or even fair, ID photo. Once I mentioned this on social media, and my cousin was all “post it, post it” I texted her a picture of it, and she was then “OMG, you can’t show that in public”.
I think of it this way… even if I am at the grocery store because I am sick and needed soup, kleenex, whiskey, Sudafed, and cough drops, I still look better than my photo.
Tamara, I’m so happy your plants are doing well! Home grown tomatoes are the best.
Just the mention of anything involving Georgia drivers licensing or motor vehicle “services” makes me break out in a cold sweat. I wish I didn’t remember having to deal with them when I lived there.
I’m in South Dakota this weekend. Wanted to get away from the city and job stress. I’ve had a wonderful day going to Badlands National Park, and to the Crazy Horse Memorial which is unfinished but I loved it. They took us on a school bus for $4 to get closer to the mountain and sculpting/excavation work. It was 96º here today!
It’s every 10 yrs here in FL. I didn’t realize it was expired by 2 months until I did my taxes in Feb. Oops! I too had to bring all the documents you mentioned. Ugh. Rainy weekend here. Making a lo country boil tomorrow and have been cleaning out my kitchen cabinets since I got some new bowls and mugs. Exciting stuff, but like you I have to stoke while the mood strikes me. Rain, rain, rain
I moved my potted plants fromCrockettin the SF Bay Area to new Sacramento duplex on Tuesday. All 200+ of them had wild grass growing in the pots and had to be carried down 40 stairs. I had help with the heavy water lily pots but still need to set them up. After a windy day in the Bay and carrying the pots with grass close to my face I am having the worst allergy attack in 50 years. (Anything for my green babies!) The Rx spray and eye drops and Zyrtec and even Prednisone do not seem to be working. Finally, coconut oil on my eyes allowed me to open them wide enough to use iPad. But it will be worth it when plants are back to healthy.
Um you are not allowed to carry plants like that anymore. Next time, find a church that will send their youth group to help you. I used to be that youth group. And carrying plants from one place to another would be one of the best jobs. My worst was a guy with a boat on Lanier that wanted us to sand it. He was creepy.
I agree. You cannot carry that stuff by yourself. I go to a great church and the youth group is always willing to help and they refuse to take any $, but I force them to take it. Meanwhile, the Cubs are winning right now against SF and I am very happy being a life long Cubs fan (growing up outside of Chicago, aka Chiraq). But back to you hauling that stuff by yourself. NO MORE!!
Do you think it’s too late to plant tomatoes? I’m a little north of Charlotte, NC. If it’s not, any suggestions on what kind to plant?
If not, I’m going to need to find a friend with tomatoes! There’s just no comparison btwn fresh tomatoes and those in the store.
No! Not too late! Go buy a Bush Goliath or whatever $15 (I know, do it anyway! It’s still worth it!) plant looks good at Home Depot or whatever. You will have some by late July. Then buy the small start EARLY GIRL and she won’t be far behind, and if your budget still allows buy another $3 sun gold, if you can find it for the yummy yellow cherry tomatoes. And if you find yourself compelled pick up a San Marzano (name is probably wrong or misspelled) for spaghetti, but you can ALWAYS make sauce when you have too many and freeze it.
So no, go, it is a nice distraction and obligation. You can’t let your plant die because you are too sad, lazy and fat (sorry that is me) to water them. So if you are any of those things. BUY MORE! lol. The financial investment alone will motivate you. I also buy bags of “organic dirt” and this year I bought some fertilzer stakes. Plus with all the sweat equity… it does motivate you to be outside in the world for 15 minutes or so a day. Though I’ve barely been doing five. Life is sucking hind tit lately. But everything is still alive and thrivig, dog, plants, website so … I am doing what I need to.
Thank you! Especially for the specifics! I’ve found the choices overwhelming in the past. It’s been a while since I’ve attempted to plant any-and not with the best success. My first year I was married(25 yrs ago) I planted three and watered and fertilized and watered and fertilized! The most beautiful plants lush, huge green-3 tiny tomato plants you ever seen!! Learned when my parents visited that they’d apparently used all their energy to be huge, lush, and green so none leftover for actual tomato making! Lesson learned!😜
So actually I am now motivated-so thank you! May have more questions-like best placement, sunwise? Anyway, thanks again for the help
So I bought a pair of UGG shoes recently. and my ads have not stopped the shoes were on back order and all i remember at this point is that they were some sort of black flats. I think I will unbox them now.
Well they are very cute, and they would be very cute to wear on a plane. the size is slightly tight,but I am going to wear them on my next flight to somewhere. But that might be a mistake unless I wear them a bit first.
I REALLY like the traction on the sole which is why i probably bought them months ago (they were on back order) BUT if the furlining is on the inside? Go up a half size.
Next I have a handbag I haven’t unboxed from Coach. I think that was before Christmas. It was purchased to require a wallet changeover THIS ALL SEEMS LIKE so much. I like small envelope bag unless I am traveling when it’s essentially another place to tuck things. If I TRANSFER MY WALLET… sigh. I will have more of a handbag swag in modern day …
Does anyone else wait days or weeks to open things they ordered? I also like to wait forever to open presents, I mean I know I have to thank people on Christmas or my birthday, But I love “having a present” and I do not want to be spoiled, I just like to look at them. That said, my very first UGGS might be a miss. Not sureI want to send them back for a 10.5 because, UGG.
I have found that Uggs tend to run small probably due to fur inside or just because other countries seem to have smaller feet apparently. I usually wear a 9.5/10. I only order 10 in Uggs and they even feel small sometimes but there’s seemed to be a little give over time. The good thing about them is how well they’re made-they last forever
I’ve never bought a pair of Uggs. I wear an 11, so I’d probably need a 12!? I love the way they look on everyone but I think I’d resemble sasquatch, le sigh.
Love the idea of a purse, wallet turnover! I usually just carry wristlet , have a larger bag with all other “purse things” I grab for work and travel…
I planted a flat of strawberries two years ago and since has tripled in size. It’s taking up a lot of my garden space. I love strawberries but I may have to build a new veggie garden next year. Looks like I am going to be freezing strawberries for the next few days they are ripe and delicious right now. I live in the Midwest and my veggies are just now flowering. Won’t have any til july probably. I planted an Amish paste tomato plant (never heard of it til this year) so I am anxious to harvest that one and put up paste late summer. My green beans haven’t popped through the dirt yet, so I need to replant them. First year growing Brussels sprouts and I hope they do good. I love grilling or broiling them to where they are almost burnt or just crispy with some salt and pepper and parmesan cheese.
Dig some strawberry plants up and transplant them somewhere else. We do it every year and we have tons of plants. They can be ovwrwhelming.
It would help if you all posted where you were planting when you post here.
I live in Ohio. The rule of thumb is not to plant until after Mothers Day for fear of a late frost. It was a long ass winter this year. It went from snowing in April to now near 90 (real feel not actual temp) in May. Not complaining I love the heat, just missed having a Spring season.
OT ..have not turned on a/c yet. My husband wants it on but I hate having it on. Love opening the windows and doors to the fresh air. I don’t mind if someone else has theirs on at their house (It’s actually awesome to walk in a house with ac) but I have a hard time turning my own on. Growing up we never had a.c. not even in the cars my parents drove. My dad called a.c. in the car 460. Turn all the windows down and drive fast.
In the ground.
All I have this year is a basil plant. There’s a little roadside farm stand within walking distance of here so I’m going to give him some business. We have a LOT of projects in progress on this house so we can sell it and move to the sticks. I can’t wait.
Yesterday was my birthday and I did not go to Bimini, which should awesome.. We had a nice, quiet day which is fine by me.
I’m in GA and had to renew my license 2 yrs ago. My understanding is once you produce the documentation this time, you’ll get the updated license with some kind of chip or some shit and can renew online from then on. My license photo is a total mugshot.
I planted a few new perennials on the coast of Maine. Butterfly Bush, a Salvia and another. I might be able to get the veggies planted soon. The overnight lows are still hitting the 40s and can in June as well. I’ll have to get some plastic to put over the plants cause I can’t wait much longer! In the meantime, I’m installing a DIY home irrigation system.
Had a momma duck and her ducklings spend the afternoon in my pink flower bed. Planted the last of the peppers yesterday, some Jimmmy Nardello sweets, poblanos, Thai red hots, and Peruvian citrus. Trying red burgundy okrabecause the plants are so pretty.
It’s starting to get HOT here in Houston and many of my plants are unhappy. I need to get out for a few hours today and do some weeding and mulching but can’t work up much enthusiasm with the heat.
I gave up on planting a tomato this year, as I have had little success here in the past. However, I didn’t do anything with the pot (it sits behind the garage) and it has the most amazing tomato plant growing it, apparently from a tomato that fell into the pot last year. Many many little green tomatoes! Apparently my key to growing tomatoes is to not try to grow tomatoes.
Surprisingly my two fledgling fig trees are also going crazy this year. I assumed the two big freezes that Houston got in January would kill them, but they seem to have liked it. I need to get some bird netting for those as well as the tomato plant if I hope to save any fruit from the birds, though.
Thanks for the fun post, Tamara! I always enjoy reading the Tomato Talk posts and responses, even if I don’t always respond myself. Have a great Sunday!
My Salsa garden is thriving. Im in MO and the heat and hunidity are unbearable so I water and mist my garden almost everyday. My Cherokee Purples plants are both doing great. I’m going to be supplying tomatoes to the neighborhood this summer.
Hey, Tamara. Hope you are feeling better, and thanks so much for providing this online space for us.
I’m actually at the pool as I write this. The weather couldn’t be more perfect here in Vegasland… Well, other than perhaps the wind that occasionally cranks up to 11 when you least expect it. Still, I’m taking some time to enjoy the acacias, desert willows, and palo verdes here at our wash.
The cactus in my patio is still going strong. I should probably give it some more water soon, but it’s obviously quite good at thriving in our desert environment.
It has been long enough for me to start thinking a Vegas trip would be fun. I don’t have the personality type to do well in Vegas. I love to gamble, I love to drink, I love to stay up all night long, just me, my waitress and my dealer. Then I start extending my trip… The next thing you know I haven’t been sober a single hour of the five or seven day trip. I do this unsupervised, without witnesses, When I finally leave, I tell myself “VEGAS.BAD” It’s kind of like graduate school. It was tough while I was there, and I swore I would never deal with arrogant major professors again. And then I started thinking getting a doctorate would be “fun.” I would like to be butt nekkid in the dessert alone on a big rock with no humans in site for an hour or two though. It’s just been soggy hell in the ATL here lately.
That’s what I love about this town: We can pretty much do whatever we want and become whoever we want. Gambling got old for me after my first year living here, so I rarely ever play the slots any more. (In these parts, slot machines are all over the place, even at supermarkets and convenience stores!) I do still like to try new cocktails every so often, so I occasionally find a good excuse to head to Fremont East (Downtown, east of the giant canopy) to try one of the bars over there.
As for being alone in the desert, there are a lot of fabulous places to try that here in Southern Nevada. It’s hard to beat the scenery of Red Rock Canyon. I’ve come to love the otherworldly nature of Gold Butte. Even Sloan Canyon and the McCullough Range make for a great day hike.
One of my 4 tomato plants has passed away. Not sure if it was a Roma or a regular. I started them indoors from seed and transplanted outside.
Sorry to hear that. Maybe if you had know more about it, it would not have died. JUST KIDDING. I have six tomato plants (for now) and every time I see a new fruit or a new issue I have to read the damn tag to know what plant is where. For example, I realized I was fretting over the Pink Brandywine and the San Marzano because it was next to the flourishing Early Girl. In fact it is time for the Early Girl to be producing and the other two are on their own schedule.
It keeps on threatening to rain her. clouds come, a few tiny drops fall, I breathe a sigh of relief that I don’t have to water, and then it stops. Reading y’alls comments forced me to get up and at least water the brandywine and the Marzano. The Marzano shocked me with a fruit today that I didn’t see last time I looked! San Marzano take longer to produce than most varieties which is why I don’t always plant them. I like immediate gratification when it comes to gardening.
I stayed up SUPER late last night so I slept most of the day away and didn’t get jack all done. I’ve been bingeing Naked and Afraid in between naps. I had planned to call my sister today and by the time I was awake enough to do it, it was Family Dinner time and that’s not a good time for a phone catch up.
Thanks for the motivation to water today! I know a lot of people think it is weird to have a Tomato Garden post each week. Sometimes it seems silly to me as well. I mean do people really want to hear that my Pink Brandywine apparently is not getting enough water? 🙂 But this is my favorite post every week, so thank you for indulging me.
I look forward to this post every week. I missed last week, I know you were not feeling well, that’s cool, but I was happy to see the post up. Thanx TT. Also, by the amount of comments here, I would say it’s a very popular post and people can ask questions and learn from others.
I love the tomato talk post. No one else cares about my maters, so it’s nice to be in the company of like minded people.
I TOTALLY CARE! Plus when problems begin to arise, we have people to discuss them with.
I totally planned on planting tomatoes this year, if fact I still might! We’ve been in the 80s/90s for the last few days..in MAY! I got my air conditioner installed yesterday by some random on Craigslist because I was sick of waiting for losers to show up. Tonight I’m drinking a wine slushy and watching bad TV
I just noticed these pods on my irises. I guess I will save the seeds! hopefully I won’t be here in two years but if I am, at least I’ll have Irises!
We’ll start by assuming your favorite iris produces a seedpod after bloom, which will be a somewhat lumpy, green oval atop the flower stem after it fades.
To keep the seedpod, avoid the impulse to deadhead your irises immediately after blooms fade. Let the seedpods ripen and turn fully brown and begin to split open before you cut them off and store them in a cool, dry place.
In the fall, as it begins to cool, plant the seeds in the garden in an area prepared with amended soil and that is weed free. Plant the seeds about ½” to ¾” deep and a few inches apart, and mark the area. Now let nature take its course.
In the spring, about half of the seeds should have sprouted. Be careful-they look like grass at the seedling stage until they develop the distinctive, flat fan arrangement of leaves that are typical of the iris family. Once they are a few inches tall, they can be carefully dug up and moved to their permanent location. Don’t disturb the rest of the seed nursery area yet-the seeds that did not sprout the first year may very well sprout the second year, and you’ll have yet another crop of baby plants.
They will not flower the first spring, but they should the second. Here’s the surprise: the new Iris will probably not be the same color as the mother plant was, as most Irises are hybrids and do not breed true. You will have a unique iris that you can call your own.
SOURCE: https://www.newgarden.com/notes/iris-from-seed