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7 February 2018 - Freeze Your Lilies

Lilies of the Valley Bloom Indoors


"Garden shops sometimes offer a few potted pips of lilies of the valley for forcing into bloom indoors at this time of year. If you have a well established bed of these flowers, you can get a similar jump on the blooming season by using your own pips as soon as the ground thaws."

Look at our Homemaker Heroine!

She got that green thumb.

Me?

I got rocks.

My gardening style is more of a Mad Max, desert utopia, it's all dead kind of theme.

I do well with plants that don't need a lot of attention such as a cactus.

Our Almanac today suggests that encouraging blooming is to make sure the pips have enough time in prolonged freezing temperatures.
Like some other plants, these lilies need a good winter rest. And here I thought that freezing was bad for flowers. Really what do I know?

So if you had a mild winter, it is better to bag the pips and digging them up and keep them in the freezer for a few weeks before planting.

Try explaining that to your family.

"No kids! We can't have Bagel Bites. I have to keep my plants in there?"

This is why people always thought their moms be crazy.

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