2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Some flowers in the fall just "settle" in the beds, while others should go to rest. The second category includes gladioli. These flowers do not overwinter in the ground. And with the arrival of cold weather, they need to be removed from the beds in order to return them to flower beds and flower beds in the spring. When is it necessary to dig up perennial corms and how to store them?
When to start digging gladioli?
There is no definite time frame for when and in what period to remove gladioli from the beds. Primarily because there are varieties with an early flowering period, and with a late one. And the time when it comes time to remove them from the beds is also different.
In addition, allowance must be made for weather conditions. If the weather is warm in the fall, like this year, you can take your time with the digging and laying of the planting material for storage. This will give the bulb time to mature and survive the dormant winter well. But when frosts come, and the daytime temperature drops below +5? C, it's time to think about how to quickly remove the corms from the soil.
Another nuance by which you can focus on the timing of the excavation of gladioli is the flowering period. At the end of it, it is desirable for the plants at least another two weeks, and it is better to stand in the ground for a month. Because, unlike other flowers, which signal the readiness of the bulbs for the winter period by yellowing the leaves, such a sign is not peculiar to gladioli. They can decorate the garden with tall elastic bright green leaves for a long time. But they should not be overexposed in a flower bed, and even more so, they should not be allowed to freeze. Although the soil does not usually freeze to such a depth where the gladiolus bulb sits. So, before the first frost, you can leave gladioli in the ground.
How to prepare gladioli for storage
The corms are not pulled out of the soil, but carefully dug out with a shovel, carefully freeing them from the adhering earth. Children should form on them, which can be used for reproduction.
Before sending gladioli corms for storage, they must be dried. This is done in several stages:
• at the first stage, the plants are not cut off and the corms, together with the aerial part and old roots, are left under a canopy so that they dry out a little and wither. If it is rainy damp weather outside the window, the plants can be left in the greenhouse or brought to a cool veranda;
• at the second stage, when the old bulb is easily separated from the bottom, the stems are also cut off and the planting material is etched in an insecticide solution, since the Achilles heel of gladioli is thrips, so prevention will not hurt. When there is a hint of a fungal infection, then fungicide treatment should be carried out as well. If the plant looks healthy, then pickling can be postponed until spring before planting gladioli in flower beds;
• at the third stage, the planting material is left in a warm, dry room for three weeks at a temperature of about +22? C … + 25? C, in order to finally dry the corms before laying them for winter storage.
Where to store gladioli
Keep gladioli before planting in a cool, dark place. Good conditions for this are in the refrigerator, cellar, basement. Storage temperature is approximately +5? С… + 8? С.
Corms can be wrapped in several layers of paper, newspapers, packed in paper bags and laid so that they lie on the bottom during storage. But do not resort to storage in plastic bags, otherwise the planting material will fog up and hurt.
If you store gladioli warm and light, there are two dangers:
• the first - with poor processing, thrips can be activated;
• and the second - the corms may germinate ahead of time, and if they were packed in paper and stored in an arbitrary position, on the side, and not on the bottom, then the sprout will bend and the flower will be damaged.
Therefore, during storage, you need to check your gladioli several times, whether they are sick, and whether a premature awakening has begun.
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