Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #12, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
I re-potted all of our amaryllis today. 83 pots in total, but some are little guys. This spring I took them all out of their pots and planted them along the back edge of a long bed that gets partial sun. I ignored them all summer while they leafed out and then in late September I dug them up and cut off their foliage and then put each one in lunch sack and then stored them in the crawl space. We lost a few over the summer, but most seemed OK. DH hauled them out today and I trimmed back their roots and potted them up in new soil. Now fingers crossed that they produce some stalks. Some didn't look so great, but I wanted to try a new way of dealing with them over the summer besides keeping them in their pots which takes up way too much room for just leaves and requires lots of watering. We shall see. Could have been a really dumb gardening idea. That wouldn't be my first, or last. Patti