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42 THE RURAL VOICE
Arnold goes through the ones
furthest along to pick out the blooms
and trim them close to the ground.
The flowers must not be opened yet.
These are then put into pails with
water and chrysal, a plant food.
Next the bouquets are sorted by
bud count as they are sold as one,
two, three and four plus. "The best
price is four and over. That's our
goal."
The flowers are then sleeved into
bunches of 10 and put in a cooler at
2°C to be shipped to the wholesaler.
Qnce
a bed is empty it's tilled
and replanted.Outside is a
different story because they
multiply the bulbs, and wait for new
ones to come that they will
propagate. To do this they break off
the scales of the bulb or separate
them. These are then placed to root
for six weeks when they will grow
little bulbettes. They get transplanted
outside as soon as the ground is
workable in the spring.
That year the bulb will increase to
the size of a marble, depending on
the pH level of the land. These are
"People like lots of
blooms, which depends on
the diameter of the bulbs."
then harvested and put into a -2°C
freezer to be replanted the next year.
"If conditions are favourable, after
another season, the bulbs might be
sellable," says Arnold.
The type of bulb that is useable in
the greenhouse, may not be outdoors.
"People like lots of blooms which
depends on the diameter of the bulbs. .
In the greenhouse they would be 12-
14 cm, but the ones we sell could be
up to 20 cm," Arnold says.
This year, the Wiegersmas expect
to have 30 varieties of bulbs in the
garden, which will be tended for
weed control, fertilizer, and the
removal of buds or blooms. This is
done so the energy goes into the
bulbs rather than to the flowers.
About 40,000 of the bulbs will be
first-year. It takes roughly 20 hours
to plant 6,000.
Even though most of the lilies
don't flower, there is still enough to
make the garden a fetching sight for
passers-by. Margy says there will
probably be about 3,000-4,000 of the