How to store bulbs of flowers: lilies, tulips, hyacinths
The guarantee of a beautiful and powerful flowering of bulbous flower crops for the next year is the proper storage of their corms, bulbs and rhizomes.
The main factors of proper storage are humidityand temperature. In winter, the planting material should be kept in a cool and humid place, preferably in a cellar, cellar or glassed-in balcony. In the latter case, the bulbs need to be sprinkled with water from time to time, since the humidity of the air on the glassed balcony may not be sufficient.
During the winter storage of corms,bulbs and rhizomes are placed in boxes or boxes, covered with moss from above, sprinkled with dry sand or peat. Summer storage of bulbs of hyacinths, crocuses and tulips consists in their timely digging and storage in conditions with a certain humidity and temperature.
How to store bulbs of lilies
Dig up bulbs of lilies about in the middleSeptember. After that, they are disinfected in a solution of a fungicide (for example, in fundosol), dropping them there for 3-5 minutes. Then lay out on paper in a shady place (preferably under a canopy) and dry it, and then put in boxes or sacks of capron (depending on the amount) and pour over the top with dry sawdust or peat.
Lilies of lilies, like other flowers, are stored in cellars or cellars. It is advisable to check their condition once a month, to reject diseased bulbs.
How to store bulbs of gladioli
Dilate the gladiolus corms in the thirddecade of September, cleaned from the ground and roots, detach children. To prevent disease, they are dipped in a solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour (5 g per 10 liters of water), then put in the solution of carbophos (30 g per 10 liters of water) for the same time, so that they are not affected by pests.
After this, corms are placed in woodenboxes or paper bags, sprinkle dry peat from above, put in storage in the cellar or cellar. During storage, the planting material is inspected monthly, the diseased corms are removed.
How to store bulbs of hyacinths
Bulbs hyacinth - perennial, so you needtreat them very carefully. For the excavation of hyacinths, the best time is the end of June and the beginning of July. The excavated bulbs are cleaned of the remains of leaves, earth, washed and dried. Then the material is sorted and stored for storage in wooden boxes or cardboard boxes. The first two months the hyacinths are stored in a sufficiently warm and dry room: when it's hot - in the barn or on the terrace, on cold days - in the kitchen or in a heated room.
It is better to store large flowering bulbsin two stages: first at elevated temperature, then at low enough. The first stage lasts about two months with a temperature of + 25-26 ° C, the second - 18-20 days with a temperature of + 17 ° C. To keep the bulbs dry, the humidity of the air in the storage should be at the level of 50-60%. At the end of September they are planted in the ground.
How to store bulbs of tulips
Time to dig out tulip bulbs - the endJune-beginning of the second decade of July. The bulbs are washed from the ground, the old bulb and the remains of the leaves are separated. The washed bulbs are dried under a canopy for several hours, then sorted by size.
The material sorted into groups is laid outin boxes (separate box for each group), put on temporary storage in a barn or on a terrace. The box with the children is covered on top with a polyethylene film, in which several holes are made to remove excess moisture (they need to cover the children, since protective scales have not yet formed in them).
Observing the recommendations on the storage of bulbs of plants, you will be able to provide plants with a lush bloom in the future.
Katerina Sergeenko
