Hey Thanks, Steve!
I'm impressed with your lilies! One of the primary reasons for our hoop house is to grow fresh flowers for the house. It's the one thing about desert living that I miss the most: flowers!
The main bed is a gem. We had soil delivered, so this is not amended natural soil. I'm sure that has everything to do with our harvests. Although, I'll give us credit, Phil is dedicated to a routine watering schedule, and I'm inside gal: seed, weed, thin, harvest, etc. It's an organic bed with no chemicals used. We use chicken and rabbit waste as fertilizer each season and turn the old leaves into the soil to decompose. I used to toss it into my chicken run, but realized my soil needed it more than the girls. So, now I turn it under. It has a welded wire bottom (for moles) and lined sides. The shade cover is a bit low to get under when inside the bed, but since it's only a summer thing, we deal with it. It has chicken wire sides and keeps out the cottontail and jack rabbits, however, the birds,lizards, and chipmunks can still cause us some havoc. But for the most part, it provides us with tremendous bounty throughout the year which says a lot since our nearest grocery is quite a drive away. I freeze or can what we don't eat fresh.
So, back to your Lillies!! I've never grown Lillies. Can you give me a quick step by step overview. My thought was to purchase bulbs soon, pot with standard potting soil and let them over winter in the hoop house so they can get their needed chill hours. Do I water them throughout this time?
Yes, a hawk moth!! That's them! They behave just like a hummingbird.
