Beginner Gardening: cutting iris leaves, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
The leaves are supposed to be exposed to the sunlight - that's the problem when they get too big and we're left with a "really messy" situation such as you described it. It's the same issue with daffodil leaves and braiding bunches of them supposedly denies sunlight to them that would affect the bloom for the following year.

You could rig up a section of this ugly green fencing and make it into a circle to keep the foliage intact. True, it's not beautiful! I have no choice but to do it for my Sweet 100 tomatoes or the deer would eat them all.