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Class of 2006
Apr. 19th, 2012 02:11 pmAfter much hand-wringing, I went into the two window box planters full of bulbs from the Class of 2006 and removed the five that I'd tagged as keepers. The rest have been discarded. The old potting soil is now in a big metal cookpot in a 350 oven, where it will spend some hours. Death to viruses!
I am thinking that I should perhaps cut back the leaves to 50% of their length, as I would with fans of iris or daylilies. But I'm not sure, so I've asked the experts over on the hippeastrum forum elsewhere on the internet.
Roy is going away on Sunday. When he does, I plan to wage intense chemical warfare in the sitting room so that any insect pest with the temerity to abide there will be very sorry. Also very dead. I believe in organic gardening, but the sitting room isn't exactly a natural environment and I want all sucking biting things gone before I move tender hippeastrum seedlings back into that room. I'll turn off the HVAC so that it doesn't pump poison throughout the house.
I am thinking that I should perhaps cut back the leaves to 50% of their length, as I would with fans of iris or daylilies. But I'm not sure, so I've asked the experts over on the hippeastrum forum elsewhere on the internet.
Roy is going away on Sunday. When he does, I plan to wage intense chemical warfare in the sitting room so that any insect pest with the temerity to abide there will be very sorry. Also very dead. I believe in organic gardening, but the sitting room isn't exactly a natural environment and I want all sucking biting things gone before I move tender hippeastrum seedlings back into that room. I'll turn off the HVAC so that it doesn't pump poison throughout the house.
