525,600 gladiolus - November 14th, 2005 at 05:36 AM
Anyone see Rent?
Anywho, I finally got around to starting digging up my glad corms...and when they say glads have babies - man, do they have babies. There are zillions of little pea sized corms that have come off the mamma corms in the soil. I'm clearing a patch of soil that's about 3'x20'. I've already filled 4 lunch bags full, and I haven't even scratched the surface really. I could be digging until kingdom come, so my question is, will the pea sized glad corms sprout in spring? I was always under the impression baby corms would be a little bigger. May be these are underdeveloped? I'm digging because the glads are in a bed I don't want them in next spring...I suppose I could always turn them under and let them rot out if I can't keep up with the digging - or, can I dig them and replant in the spring if/when they sprout as a last resort? Okay, that was more than one question
Anywho, I finally got around to starting digging up my glad corms...and when they say glads have babies - man, do they have babies. There are zillions of little pea sized corms that have come off the mamma corms in the soil. I'm clearing a patch of soil that's about 3'x20'. I've already filled 4 lunch bags full, and I haven't even scratched the surface really. I could be digging until kingdom come, so my question is, will the pea sized glad corms sprout in spring? I was always under the impression baby corms would be a little bigger. May be these are underdeveloped? I'm digging because the glads are in a bed I don't want them in next spring...I suppose I could always turn them under and let them rot out if I can't keep up with the digging - or, can I dig them and replant in the spring if/when they sprout as a last resort? Okay, that was more than one question