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Sep 20, 2010 3:24 PM CST
Name: Neal Linville
Winchester, KY (Zone 6a)
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With the tuberoses, in considering Izhar's treatment of them, I'm wondering if digging them and allowing them a dry dormancy is the solution. That lead me to think container culture may be best, but then I realized Tami's are potted.

Tami, how do you grow and store them? I'm very tempted, but curious if I'll have any better luck than you have. Oh, and those elusive daffodils! I was so sure I'd have no problem finding the bulbs to dig them, because I have them in an area I had tarped off to kill the grass and weeds, and had left only small openings where the Daffs were growing. I'd planned to dig them while the foliage was yellowing, but ended up going on a surprise trip to the beach for a week (we'd thought all along we weren't going to be able to make it, at the last minute, circumstances changed and allowed us to go), and was shocked when we got back the foliage had completely dried off. Folks at home said it had been quite hot that week, hotter than at the beach, LOL. Anyhow, when I did go digging for them, I just kept digging and digging and finding no bulbs! How deep can they work themselves? I had to have gone down 18".

I haven't given up though, when we get a decent rain I'm going to go searching again. I really want to cover the whole area, so they need to come out of there.
"...and don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous." Rumi

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