I was told on Sunday that at the end of teh season the corms should be lifted, cleaned of all remaining foliage and root debris and then kept dry and frost free, wrapped in newspaper until March or so when they could be potted up and watered and grown on in a frost free place. Safer, even here, than leaving them in their pots.
The ones this woman grows are the ordinary bedding ones and she has a "chocolate block" system of small rectangular beds with ditches all around to remove excess water from her heavy clay soil, stop plants like mint running rampant and also allow access from all sides without compressing the soil. She lifts them and keeps them in her greenhouse.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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This is the one I had ... sadly it got too cold in the garage last winter
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The ones this woman grows are the ordinary bedding ones and she has a "chocolate block" system of small rectangular beds with ditches all around to remove excess water from her heavy clay soil, stop plants like mint running rampant and also allow access from all sides without compressing the soil. She lifts them and keeps them in her greenhouse.
@Buttercupdays thanks for info.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.