The brilliant lily flower grows from carefully tended bulb each twelvemonth . The alien flowers provide fragrance and color to any flower bed . Lifting the bulbs in the fall impart protection from abrasive winter weather and allows the bulbs to go dormant or establish them a province of rest . Proper storage keep the lily bulbs plump and reinvigorated for spring planting and summer blooms .
Step 1
Lift the lily incandescent lamp in the evenfall after all the foliage has turn brown and died back . The light bulb are still gathering nutrients while the slender green leave are grow .
Step 2
Use a garden fork or pitch fork to mildly loose the soil where the lilies are plant . Comb the soil softly with the fork to situate and lift out the lily lightbulb .
Step 3
Run your hand through the soil to locate any smaller medulla oblongata not picked up by the garden fork . Gently lift these bulbs from the territory . Discard any bulbs that appear broken or damaged . Dried bulbs or those showing sign of disease also need to be discarded .
Step 4
Separate any of the larger lily bulb showing signs of division . merely turn the two parts away from each other . Lay out the lily electric-light bulb in a shaded region , allowing them to heal for two or three days before putting the bulb in storage .
Step 5
Add a lean bed of moist peat moss to a depot container and place the bulbs on the peat moss . level in more peat moss and bulb , with the final layer being peat moss . close up the container . Label the container with the bloom information to think of what colors or type of lily was stored . It is well-to-do to forget after a few months .
Step 6
range the lily bulbs into the bottom draftsman , design for vegetables , of the refrigerator . salt away the lily bulb in the icebox until any risk of Robert Lee Frost has passed and the bulbs can safely be planted back in the garden .
Step 7
Check the lily bulbs throughout the warehousing period to ensure a moist storage medium . haze over the peat moss if it appear dry or the bulbs show signaling of drying out .
Tip
A cool space in the cellar works well to store lily bulbs if there is no elbow room in the refrigerator . The key to successful storage is no brightness level and a little moisture . If the bulb dry out out , they will most likely fail .
Warning
Airtight container cause the stored lily bulbs to rot . A punctured purse work if no onion traveling bag or air storage container is uncommitted . Simply cut a few tiny slits in the bag before position in the lily bulbs .
