Comments on: Corm On In – Storing Gladiolus Corms

By: Elane Crum

Elane Crum — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:33:29 +0000

Hanna, I appreciate the information you shared on Glads. I have never grown them and just got a bag of 50 from closeout on spring stock from a nursery. I live in SW MO, Zone 5, I think, and do not know if they will have time to mature if I plant them now…first week of July. If I chose to save for next spring planting, do all of the above storage techniques still apply? Thanks,

By: Gaylan L. Suhr

Gaylan L. Suhr — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:21:04 +0000

I don’t really know the defination of a Corm. Is this just a sprout off the Glad Bulb. I can’t find a picture of a corm. I need help. I have purchased bulbs each year and I would like to keep my own and grow new each year.

Also, I don’t know what zone I am in in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Send me the answer by email if you can.

Thank you
Gaylan L. Suhr
1030 Gailyn Circle
Lincoln, Ne 68523

By: Gita's Garden

Gita's Garden — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:46:40 +0000

What do you do if you have no “cool and Dark place” in the building you are in? I am a superintendant in a small 4 unit building and went crazy buying Glad.’s this spring because I got the O.K. to do the whole “gardening” thing.
We get really cold winters here and the outside shed for the snow blower and lawn mower is just a tin building, obviously too cold, and the preset heat is really cozy warm. Do I have a chance with my corms ???

By: LadyBug

LadyBug — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:01 +0000

You obviously don’t live in Zone 4/5! Most years I dig them up and set them aside with some other plants that will not overwinter. I don’t do this because I don’t want the expense of new bulbs in the spring, but because the overwintered bulbs grow bigger and stronger than anything available locally.

One year, the snow came very early, and the bulbs were still in the ground. I mulched over the bulbs and rationalized that they would probably survive. The next year all that remained was mush. It reminded me of the meatball’s fate from an old camp song, except nothing grew from these little piles of muck.

There have been the rare and infrequent overlooked survivors planted close to the basement wall in a very well mulched bed. But in truth, this little micro-climate is not reliable enough to risk my grand old lady bulbs overwintering there.

By: valerie

valerie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:07:48 +0000

I have never dug my corms up in the fall and they have came back stronger the ever.