gladioli

  • 9 Replies
  • 3532 Views
*

WG.

  • Guest
gladioli
« on: September 23, 2007, 10:29 »
Do you lift your gladiolus corms every winter please?  I have been doing so but would rather not be bothered if I can get away with leaving them in the ground.

*

Liz

  • New Member
  • *
  • Location: Ramsey, Huntingdon
  • 46
gladioli
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2007, 10:46 »
I don't lift mine and they keep flowering every year. I have lived here for six years and they were here then. They are planted beside a wall and I am in a warmer part of the uk to you, don't know if that makes a difference.  :)
Not necessarily organic

*

WG.

  • Guest
gladioli
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2007, 10:55 »
Thanks Liz - not many colder parts TBH.  Braemar maybe and that's about an hour from me.

Anyone else please?

*

muntjac

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: near diss norfolk
  • 11971
gladioli
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2007, 12:56 »
i have em up and store em in sawdust after the soils brushed offen em .i sort out the smalls n plant em someplace else n then transfer em back the year after , i always put some good manure under em when i plants em mate :wink: ,so thick n tall ya can tie a cow s tail to em :wink:
still alive /............

*

gobs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: Chesterfield, UK
  • 8466
gladioli
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2007, 13:37 »
I just started growing them 2 years ago, no lifting etc, as my mom never did(much colder in Hungary), so I figured it must be rather about drainage and rot, than cold. So put them in a well draining place, they are fine.
I do not lift tulips or dahlias either, just need the time for me veg.
"Words... I know exactly what words I'm wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around." R Dahl

*

muntjac

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: near diss norfolk
  • 11971
gladioli
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2007, 14:23 »
i lift all my bulbs and also my dahlias. as i grow spring bedding plants to go in so i give the soil a work out and then plant the bulbs with the bedding plants . good dahlias can be taken up and used for cuttings before you replant the tubers

*

Trillium

  • Guest
gladioli
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2007, 14:42 »
Some people around me insist they leave their glads in for winter, but they have so many plants to begin with that I doubt they really notice. My guess is that the bulbs die over winter here. I lift all my glads, dahlias and canna bulbs for winter. Considering the cost of fresh outlay if I lost the gamble of live or die, I just won't risk it. Have left some corms and roots out to test and they all froze and died. However, there are some perennial glads, shorter than the annual ones, that can take freezing but are harder to find and costlier.
Regardless, I find I need to feed and turn the soil where they grew anyway so it's little difference pulling them in fall or trying to work around them in spring.

*

David.

  • Guest
gladioli
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2007, 15:07 »
I grow about 300 for cut flowers, rotorvate over the top early spring for two years then take them up after the third year, keep in my shed and re-plant in spring.

Some one else on same allotment used to grow thousands and would simply rotorvate in and plant new corms about every third year.

It's clay soil, so I probably lose more than most over winter.

When they start getting a bit thin I plant french beans amongst them, all mulched with grass cuttings (as I do when it's just gladys).

*

Calou

  • Experienced Member
  • ***
  • Location: Heathrow
  • 266
gladioli
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2007, 21:40 »
I've never lifted a bulb or anything else in the 20 odd years I've had my garden. My glads are huge and have wonderful blooms and they've been in the soil now for about 6 years but then it is milder down this way so this may not be much help to you WG.
Calou
Reasonably organic but totally realistic

*

Celtic Eagle

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Location: Rochdale Lancashire
  • 1747
    • The Eagle's Nest
gladioli
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2007, 12:30 »
Yep

Cannas Dahlias Glads all out the damp gets em other wise

An I think it's gonna be a cold one don't ask why i just feel it.
Blessed Be
Celtic Eagle

Everything grows green for a Celt

Mostly organic 'cept weedkiller and slugs



xx
Gladioli

Started by AmandaLouise on General Gardening

7 Replies
2003 Views
Last post July 31, 2012, 20:08
by angelavdavis
xx
Gladioli

Started by joyce c on General Gardening

15 Replies
5423 Views
Last post August 31, 2009, 01:34
by Paul Plots
xx
Gladioli...what now?

Started by lsp12 on General Gardening

8 Replies
2845 Views
Last post February 06, 2010, 11:59
by Paul Plots
xx
Gladioli help please

Started by Casey76 on General Gardening

4 Replies
1620 Views
Last post June 11, 2009, 21:44
by Hey Jude
 

Page created in 0.189 seconds with 35 queries.

Powered by SMFPacks Social Login Mod
Powered by SMFPacks SEO Pro Mod |