Glads need to be moved

My glads are blooming beautifully! I will be moving in a couple of months & want to take the bulbs with me. How can I do this? And should I replant the bulbs as soon as I am moved?

Dig them, break the tops off the bulbs, put them in a dry sunny place for about a week to dry. Then break off the old corm. It will be on the bottom. Dust with a bulb dust, ask a garden center for it. Store in a container that as holes for air movement. Put them containers in a dry place that will be about 40º to 45º. Plant them in your new place next spring.

You can save all the little corms you find when you dig them. They will be the same color as the original one. They will grow on to be full size in a couple years.

Have fun!
Bernie

Wow! I have work to do! Should I cut off the green stalks before I dig them up? I don't know anywhere that will be 40-45 during the summer here. It gets over 100! Should I keep them in the air conditioned house? If I don't replant them when I move, will they be all dried out? Is a paper bag with holes a good container?

I am amazed at how the original bulbs multiplied! The little bulbs will take a while to mature & actually bloom?

I have not planted bulbs before, so this is new to me, so bear with me:)
TIA!

Don't dig them until you are ready to move.
Hot won't hurt them as long as they are dry. If to warm, they will sprout & try to grow. Cool keeps them from growing until you plant them.

May I pass on great advice I got from another gardener? Dig them up with a fork, not a shovel. Much easier to lift several at once, with much less danger of spearing them. Also spares the roots. I used this technique to lift several hundred tulip bulbs in the last couple of month - to put glads in! With a shovel I usually sever a few bulbs. The garden fork spared them all.

Donna

Thanks to both of you!

also, don't let them dry outside in the sun where you live in zone 9b