Bulb Re-Orient // Clay // ROT

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

It's that time of the year - almost about time for bulb plantings.

It was a nice day today so I decided to dig up the Globemasters as I wanted to divide out some extra bulblets that grew up this year. The soil is pretty clay-ish (which I knew this might be a problem water/moisture wise). As I got down to the roughly where the bulb height was, I broke out the hand shovel and slowly ~excavated~ looking for the bulb. Sigh. It was MUSH.

I stopped digging and put all the soil back. ;-(

We'll see what blooms up next year.

This year, they bloomed up fine but then again, they were planted in fall of 2017 so did not see the summer weather in my garden

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katob Z6ish, NE Pa
8 years ago
Yuck, sorry to hear that.

How has the weather been this year? We had steady rains all last summer and I ended up losing things like daffodils and alliums to what I'm pretty sure was rot. Just a few days ago I dug into a cyclamen corm that was all a stinky mush, so I think next spring there might be a few disappointments here as well.
posierosie_zone7a
8 years ago
Sorry to hear Katob. I'm a little worried about Spring as the one year I forgot and left my soaker hose overnight (twice? Three times?) I saw reduced blooming in those beds the next Spring.

I have clay based soil, too. Alliums have never liked me much. Except the garlic in my vegetable bed - that looooooves me. I eat the flower scapes.

Just a hopeful but, I was adding annuals just a month ago to fill things in and I was coming across healthy bulbs (my ground is packed - can't dig without disturbing someone!). So, hopefully a majority is hanging in there.
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