CULT: Dried Rhizomes
- Subject: CULT: Dried Rhizomes
- From: w*
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:43:59 -0600
- Priority: normal
On 28 Mar 01, at 14:10, John Reeds wrote:
> Welcome aboard! If you can't find any local growers, there are plenty of
> great catalogs all around the country (not to slight the Australians,
> French, etc.). Just don't buy dried out rhizomes at your hardware store
> or from miscellaneous bulb catalogs like Spring Hill, Michigan Bulb, or
> Henry Fields.
>
> John Reeds, in southern Calif.
For this area, the dried out kind are the very best rhizomes
available, but not those from the suppliers you listed as they are
almost always incorrectly named.
The rhizomes we get from the West Coast are instant rotters if not
dried and cured for a month or so. Sometimes, upon arrival, you can
literally shake the water out of the rhizomes from that area. To
plant them in the hot sun on arrival without drying them out is
inviting disaster. Many people here even dry out their own plants
for months before transplant, and when planted they take off like
sage hens.
This is another example where cultural practices vary across the
country.
Give me your dried, small, shriveled rhizomes any day. Don't send me
the hockey pucks, as somebody recently described West Coast rhizomes.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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