Lilies: when to plant, 1 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
You're closer to the south shore but not all that far from me. They winter well, but I also plant some new lilies every spring as soon as the ground is workable. I'm assuming you've got healthy, hardy bulbs. You might want to work in some dried fall leaves to improve drainage and keep the mulch down. It does not keep the weeds down, but keeps the ground damp. We had so much spring rain that you might not have had good drainoff and raising the beds could be really helpful as well as container gardening.

Most of our ground plants did not do nearly as well as our container gardens. All the container plants that had lilies did well. The container tomato plants did not suffer blight like the in-ground plants. FYI, we used 35 gallon containers and drilled holes for drainage. They were not the fanciest, but the cut flowers were beautiful, and because we mixed varieties, they bloomed for several weeks. They were also inexpensive, so our deck was filled/