Still raining

[jhetley]

(Still not a complaint)

Supposed to last into the night, maybe a break tomorrow, then more.  We may reach "complaint" at some point.

Grass is turning green under the onslaught.

Comments

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Glads cannot over winter anywhere the ground freezes --which rules out anywhere in New England, or Michigan for that matter.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Are glad bulbs more water than other types and that's the issue? They freeze and break open? I'm sort of tempted to build some long planter boxes for the glads and just bring them in to line the front hall (except that's where the boots go during winter... except nothing says I can't just put the boot trays on top of the boxes...)

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Glads have corms not bulbs. They are actually just differently structured stems. Hence non cold hardy.

I don't grow them myself (they are too much work). I don't know if the planters thing would work.

I know both my Dad & grandfather were glad "nuts" and they dug them up once frost had killed foliage. Dried the corms and then stored them just above freezing (around 40 degrees) -- having a root cellar helped. My understanding was that the cold was necessary to kill some sort of insect pest.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Eastern North Carolina. We had a long line of glads in the side yard (they were about 2' distant from the line of asparagus.) It's not really summer until the glads are out. Same as it is not really spring unless the daffodils are out. We actually have a root cellar. :-) I was most pleased when I saws it when we were looking at this house.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

I do understand that concept. When glads show up in the farmer's market I have to take them home.

For me summer is the fences covered with climbing roses (they are all hardy rugosas - thorny and nasty but beautiful to look at).