Beginner Gardening: Gladiolas felled by storm, 1 by GardenQuilts

GardenQuilts wrote:
Last night's storm raged thru and left my glads lying horizontally on the ground. Luckily, they were mostly done blooming. I cut the few blooms left and but them in a vase. The glads are in two buckets at the moment. (I put some compost in the bottom of the buckets. They are getting rained on, yet again, at the moment.)

I usually wait until the leaves turn brown, dig up and divide the glads, store the bulbs inside for the winter, and plant again in spring. Do I need to replant them so that the leaves can feed the bulbs? Do you think I can snip and store them early this year? Should I do something else?

I have to come up with a different scheme for next year. I have been wanting to experiment with papercrete if it ever stops raining here. One of my gardening resolutions for next year is that all fussy overwintering plants including the glads have containers for their growing season. My garden has gotten too full of plants for the dig up put back routine. Today, I kept getting my behind stuck by the roses. Then, I turned around and got my hair stuck. What a comedy routine.