Play the glad game Jun 8, 2008
Heavy, wet soils spell doom for glad corms ... Like dahlias, glads require fall digging to lift the corms and prepare them for winter storage ... Another bonus: corms and flower buds are less likely to suffer insect damage. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Garden Q&A: It's a fact: Gladiolus is a corm not a bulb May 6, 2008
Garden Qs a fact: Gladiolus is a corm not a bulb ... Gladiolus is a corm, which is similar to a true bulb but isn't made up of layers of tissue ... Also, individual corms are replaced by younger, stronger corms each year. (Florida Times-Union)
Get started on your garden without leaving the house Mar 7, 2008
The old corm will be on top of a new one; break the old away and discard. Plant the new corms in well-draining soil, together in flats or in individual pots or cups ... If you don't have gladiolus corms or dahlia and begonia tubers, now is the time to buy them. (Anchorage Daily News)
Pretty in pink Feb 14, 2008
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Bananas - good to eat and good for you, too! Jan 17, 2008
Two pseudostems, or shoots, are allowed to grow from part of the underground stem called a corm. The larger stem produces one bunch, or hand, of bananas and then dies. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
The poinsettia is a lovely plant, but it's not your only option for holiday decorating Dec 20, 2007
If you water it from above, you run the risk of rotting the corm, the bulb-like organ at the soil line ... But if the corm is cured and stored, it can be replanted in October and started again ... After a few seasons, the corm grows large and a single plant can be as much as 24 inches across, bearing hundreds of blooms, Gercens said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Tangy squash soup ... Uses for water chestnuts Nov 12, 2007
They are a water vegetable (technically a corm), grown alongside rice paddies on reed-like plants. Mahogany-colored and shaped like a chestnut, they have papery layers of skin that come to a tufted point in the center. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Governor Rendell Says Pennsylvania Continuing to Invest in Agriculture, Tourism Oct 18, 2007
Westmoreland -- $39,250 MELF/agriculture loan to the William J. Kavel crop farm in Irwin to purchase and install a grain bin and a corm planter. -- $200,000 SBF/agriculture loan to the Albert J. O'Brockta crop farm to purchase a 52-acre farm in Leechburg. (PR Newswire)
What heirloom gardeners and archeologists share Oct 9, 2007
The corm cannot take cold below Zone 6. Any colder and the corms must be dug up and stored for winter. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Demand driving up milk prices in South Dakota Aug 21, 2007
Milt wrote on Aug 20, 2007 9:37 AM:" The demand for alternate fuels to power our tractors, trucks, cars, combines requires lots of corn and soybeans to make these alternate fuels but is also raising the price of these crops. Dairy cows eat lots of feed to produce dairy products and so in order for farmers, ranchers and dairy folks to stay in business we need the extra price of crops and dairy products to stay in business. The higher price we get for our crops to make ethanol-biodeisel is not our... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Break out the spade - it's division time Jul 14, 2007
Reset them in the soil so that some of the lumpy corm shows at the surface. When perennials such as shasta daisies or other clumping plants get overwhelming, have a go at them with a butcher knife or even two garden forks to push them apart. (Globe and Mail)
Growing Chinese Water Chestnuts Jul 13, 2007
Water chestnuts are a glossy brown-skinned corm that is slightly flattened top and bottom similar to a gladiolus bulb. A corm is about 1 ; to 2 inches diameter (4 -5 cm) ... The edible water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) which grows in dense thickets of tall (one metre) rushes and produces many new corms over the growing season which are eaten raw in salads or in Chinese type cookery. (Suite101.com)
Tropical caladiums must be stored Jun 1, 2007
Let the leaves die down naturally to nourish the gladiola bulb, or botanically speaking, the gladiola corm. Q: I am seeing Ham and Eggs appearing in my Sunsets. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Crop Connection Apr 20, 2007
Newly-labeled crop uses include: succulent peas and beans; brassicas; canola, corn, crambe and rapeseed; cucurbits; eggplant; head lettuce; caneberries; artichoke; peppers; hops; pears; citrus; tomatoes; spinach; grapes; okra; cilantro and coriander; dried beans and peas; leafy brassicas; tobacco, tuberous and corm vegetables including potatoes and sweet potatoes. Brigade 2EC insecticide/miticide is a pyrethroid that provides longer residual control. (Agri-View, WI)
Bulbs to Plant in the Spring Apr 18, 2007
Bulbs, Corms and Tuber for Spring Planting ... While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring ... These plants are all bulbs, corms or tubers which are best planted in the spring, either early, mid or late spring, for flowers and foliage that can be enjoyed that same year. (Suite101.com)
Going bananas over a deadly disease Mar 16, 2007
The fungus originates in the soil, travels to the secondary roots and enters the corm through fresh injuries. It passes into the pseudo-stem and starts turning the leaves yellow starting with the oldest at the base first, then along the margins, and finally at the center. (People's Daily Online, China)
Warm weather prompts Corpse Flower to bloom early Feb 7, 2007
After its brief but olfactorily memorable appearance the whole structure dies back, releasing the insects while the corm of the plant lying under the ground rests while it gathers the energy it will need to surge back into visible and pungent life. MORE SCIENCE NEWS. (Scientific American)
Local botanist discovers new species in Peru Feb 6, 2007
(Paul Desmarais/Staff photo) Feb 6, 2007. By Alison Damast Staff Writer Published February 6 2007 STAMFORD - Botanist Eric Morgan was in a boat traveling down the Orosa River in Peru last January when a felled tree trunk in the water halted his journey. (Stamford Advocate)
Good wintertime performers Dec 12, 2006
About the plant: Handsome perennial grows from a corm and forms a 6- to 12-inch wide mound of heart- to arrow-shaped green leaves mottled with silver and white. Tiny pink flowers appear above the foliage in fall. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
King hosts ag hearing Jul 30, 2006
The following Iowa producers are scheduled to testify: Remsen cattle producer Bill Scheitler; Manning hog producer, Dr. Rexanne Struve; Holstein cattle producer Mark Leonard; Inwood cattle producer John Fluit Jr.; Cleghorn soybean and corn producer Tom Oswald; Fenton corn and soyben producer Dustin Bollig; Odebolt corm producer Jim Meyer; Sioux Center corn, soybean and hog producer Matt Schuiteman; Floyd sweet corn, onion, hay, soybean and cor producer Steve Rachut; and Sioux Center grain... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Ohio State University Master Gardeners Apr 28, 2006
The following sites will give you more information about the corm. Please copy the site address and paste it onto your web browser's address line. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
Get ready to grow Apr 23, 2006
Corm: a subterranean storage organ consisting of a solid stem or stem base, often enclosed in a covering called a tunic. Corms are replaced annually. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
