Lilies: Scales or seed, 0 by pardalinum

pardalinum wrote:
I don't plant the baby bulblets very deep. I find it best to have a separate space in the garden somewhere to grow out the bulblets. My biggest gripe is constantly trying to keep weeds out as the babies can get lost real easy. They look alot like grass! Lily bulbs tend to pull themselves deeper as they need it. But I have found that Trumpet lily bulblets grow so fast that I have to toss some extra soil over them. This is better than digging and setting them deeper which disturbs the roots and may set the lily back in it's progress.

Attached is a pic of a clump of seedlings that I removed from a 1 gal pot and just shoved them in as a chunk unit without separating them. Started last spring, several have little stalks; they should bloom next year. After they die back in the fall I will cover with a light mulch to keep the weeds out over the winter.