You can get corn gluten meal at the local feed store, most likely. Even if you did it three weeks ago I think it would have acted like a fertilizer, not a weed killer, but done at the proper time, it is a good weed killer. Down here (North Texas) The Dirt Doctor reminds people that the week between Christmas and New Years is the best time to spread the corn gluten meal as a pre-emergent weed killer.

I've been digging out more grass around the basketball post today, though I haven't gone down around the concrete holding it in yet. But that sucker is coming out this weekend. Looks like it will be tomorrow because I have things to finish before dark and it's getting close to that now.

My next door neighbor brought over a few extra plants she has from a friend giving them to her. I've been rescuing day lillies from under some salvia and the ones she brought will be a nice addition to my sparse collection. And a couple of women who walk past the house regularly walked up the drive today and in broken English asked if they could have some iris roots, pointing at my plants that started to bloom this week. She indicated by wrapping her hand around the plant as if to pull, but only to show me what she wanted, not to ransack my plantings. I told her I had some extras I hadn't planted last fall so we went back to the odds and ends corner by the garage and dug through the milk crate they stayed in all winter. Quite a few were sprouting again--iris are so hearty! I pulled a box out of the recycle bin and dropped in a couple of dozen in for her. I'll know which is her house next year by the color of the iris patch! ;)

SRS