Rotting Gladioli Bulbs

Doom and gloom; after digging up, cleaning and drying 60 odd gladioli bulbs late last autumn for storage in the cellar over winter (I needed to move them) I have recently got them out to find all but about a dozen have rotted in the centre :( . Any ideas as to why and how to prevent it happening again? For information, the daliahs I treated and stored in exactly the same way are fine.

 

Hi scrumpy, i saw this on gardeners world a couple of weeks ago, to dig them up and store them you should also risk losing some,( but monty didn't lose all of them only a few ) sorry couldnt be more help

 

Thanks for your response - glad to see it happens to the pro's as well!

 

When putting corms into storage sprinle with yellow sulphur this seems to help.

 

Ahh, yellow sulphur, 'spose I could just get the mother in law to breathe on them! . Thanks for the tip.