I am done for today. It started raining but just sprinkles. Enough to drive me inside.
I do have a before picture of the small section I just worked on but it is still in the camera so will have to wait until I can get it posted.
I worked on seven iris. Two I dug up completely and are outta here and did not get replanted. Some I divided and replanted some of the rhizomes. Then I figgured this digging wasn't working. So on the last batch I didn't dig and lift them. I just took out my big heavy garden slicing knife and hacked off rhizomes from each clump to make it smaller so it didn't spread out so much.
I lift and hack off pieces of daylily clumps so was thinking why shouldn't this work with iris? First I cut back all the leaves of the ones I worked on so I could more easily see what I was doing. Then just hacked off some new rhizome growers that were off to the sides which made the iris clump smaller. Don't know what I think of my results but will look at it again tomorrow.
The two empty spots will get transplants from elsewhere in the garden.
The next section to work on is a section of six so I started by cutting back folliage until the rain sent me inside.
Honestly I do all sorts of garden work, plant daylilies and divide them and even planting new iris that I bought. But nothing like this being really difficult. Daylililies are easy to divide compaired to this iris project. Took some asperin for my aches and will go at it tomorrow again.
