On 21 Oct 2012 14:03:06 GMT, wrote:


After all my dahlias rotted in the ground over winter last year, I have
made an effort to dig up and store any summer bulbs that I have found
as I have been going along, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with
the gladioli. Some of them are still flowering, and a lot are still
with green leaf. Do I pull them and leave them to dry out a bit then
chop the leaves off, or leave them in the ground, or what?

I pulled up 3 bulbs this weekend - 1 from Benjamin's plot, which is
about the size it went in, and 2 from the blueberry "really lovely
soil" patch, which are 3 times the size, and have a whole crop of
bulblets hanging off them!!

I always lift dahlias as they're fairly close to the surface but my
gladioli were planted years ago about 6 inches deep and I've never
lifted them. If deep they stand up better and are below the frost
penetration level.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.