Re: [Storage for Daylilies]
- To: e*@columbia.edu, Medit Plants
- Subject: Re: [Storage for Daylilies]
- From: Y* G*
- Date: 18 Oct 00 18:09:23 MET DST
Would the fridge have helped much? My lilium candidum, fridged for a month
and waiting also to go to Greece have just sprouted happily away. I'm
expecting flowers shortly, and all the food tastes of fritillaria. I'd like to
know the best way to have stored them all.
Edward Malefakis <eem1@columbia.edu> wrote:
> HELP!
> The selection of fifty daylilies I ordered to take with me to Corfu in
> early December (yes, that's not too late to plant there) arrived here in
> NY, and they're not the tidy sack of dormant corms I expected to stash
> in my fridge till the time comes, but a huge, wet, muddy, tangled pile
> of very robust, juicy articles each with a large, tangled thatch of
> fleshy roots. There's no way I can keep them in the refrigerator in
> their present condition, and we have no balcony.
> Shall I:
> a. Untangle them and spread them out to dry in a dark corner (our
> apartment is overheated) and leave them there till I leave?
> b. Cut off the roots and refrigerate them?
> c. Wash them and let them dry off for a few days then cut off the great
> bulk of the roots, leaving a few, and then keep in the fridge?
> Does any one have any better ideas?
> thank you
> Cali Doxiadis
> (Of Corfu and, sometimes, New York)
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