Next gladiolus question
 

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each fall,
store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that what you
read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems like eveyone
used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now very few, if any,
individuals do in our area.

Don

Donald Gares wrote:
In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each fall,
store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that what you
read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems like eveyone
used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now very few, if any,
individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each fall,
store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that what
you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems like
eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now very few,
if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the winter
and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97 for 30 we don't
have too much to lose. :-)

Don

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dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each fall,
store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that what
you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems like
eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now very few,
if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the winter
and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97 for 30 we don't
have too much to lose. :-)

Don


Get them out in autumn if you want them to live and plant them in spring
when ground temperature is 15 centigrades of celsius. Of course there are
various sorts of gladiolus, early, mid or late (flower), the last we plant
over here about 15. july.

Donald Gares wrote in news:42542F71.6070001
@crsales.com:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each fall,
store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that what you
read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems like eveyone
used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now very few, if any,
individuals do in our area.

Don


The big, floofy, commonly found in wedding and funeral bouquet
arrangement glads are not reliably hardy in zone 5. Some years, with
mulch for protection, we've had some of them (5 to 30%) overwinter next
to the foundation. Other years, nada. Varieties called 'hardy' glads,
which have smaller, more exotic-looking flowers, are more reliable and
with mulch in the fall are reliably hardy.

Glads are inexpensive enough and common enough that I just let em freeze
and get me a new color selection in the spring :)

Richard

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dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each
fall, store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that
what you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems
like eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now
very few, if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the
winter and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97
for 30 we don't have too much to lose. :-)

Don


Get them out in autumn if you want them to live and plant them in
spring when ground temperature is 15 centigrades of celsius. Of
course there are various sorts of gladiolus, early, mid or late
(flower), the last we plant over here about 15. july.

15 centigrades of celsius?

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5

european measure for temperature
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dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each
fall, store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that
what you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems
like eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now
very few, if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the
winter and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97
for 30 we don't have too much to lose. :-)

Don


Get them out in autumn if you want them to live and plant them in
spring when ground temperature is 15 centigrades of celsius. Of
course there are various sorts of gladiolus, early, mid or late
(flower), the last we plant over here about 15. july.

15 centigrades of celsius?

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5

International measurment...even in Canada

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european measure for temperature
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dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each
fall, store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that
what you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it seems
like eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the fall but now
very few, if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the
winter and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97
for 30 we don't have too much to lose. :-)

Don


Get them out in autumn if you want them to live and plant them in
spring when ground temperature is 15 centigrades of celsius. Of
course there are various sorts of gladiolus, early, mid or late
(flower), the last we plant over here about 15. july.

15 centigrades of celsius?

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5

Paulo wrote:
International measurment...even in Canada

Well not in BC. I watch a lot of the CBC news both local and national
and I have never heard the weather report say tomorrow it will be 15
centigrades of celsius. They say it will be 15 and on the map it will
have the "c" next to the number.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington

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dedmeat wrote:

Donald Gares wrote:

In planting zone 5 do you really have to dig up the bulbs each
fall, store them, and then replant them the following spring?

I did a Google search and found the above info but I know that
what you read is nor always "carved in stone". In fact, it
seems like eveyone used to cover their rose bushes in the
fall but now very few, if any, individuals do in our area.

Don

Hardy gladiolus can be left in the ground.

I think we will give it a shot and just leave them in over the
winter and see what we get the following spring. Heck, at $1.97
for 30 we don't have too much to lose. :-)

Don


Get them out in autumn if you want them to live and plant them
in spring when ground temperature is 15 centigrades of celsius.
Of course there are various sorts of gladiolus, early, mid or
late (flower), the last we plant over here about 15. july.

15 centigrades of celsius?

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5