Daffodil bulbs
Discussion
Good evening green-fingered ones.
My gardening knowledge just about amounts to "grass is green and short (if you cut it), daffodils are yellow and tall (if you don't)". I have a bag of daffodil bulbs outside. Is it too late/too early/too anything else to plant them at this time of year?
Thanks!
My gardening knowledge just about amounts to "grass is green and short (if you cut it), daffodils are yellow and tall (if you don't)". I have a bag of daffodil bulbs outside. Is it too late/too early/too anything else to plant them at this time of year?
Thanks!
Bit late really, but they'll probably sort themselves out OK - you've got nothing to lose as they'll just go to ruin if left unplanted.
If they have developed roots and/or shoots, untangle them and plant them as carefully as possible to minimize damage, dig a hole and add enough compost to bed & cover them without damaging the fragile roots/shoots, and then add the soil back (normally you'd just stuff the bulbs straight in the earth as rough as you like).
If they have developed roots and/or shoots, untangle them and plant them as carefully as possible to minimize damage, dig a hole and add enough compost to bed & cover them without damaging the fragile roots/shoots, and then add the soil back (normally you'd just stuff the bulbs straight in the earth as rough as you like).
It is a bit too late according to all the books and web sites, but I'm increasingly convinced that many plants haven't bothered to read any of the books and web sites so they don't really know what they're meant to be doing.
If you bung them into the ground now, they'll probably be a bit late in the spring but I'd be surprised if they fail altogether.
Bear in mind that they are a bit of a pain when planted into the lawn, because after flowering you need to leave the leaves so that they can manufacture the food to store in the bulb for next year's flower(s). This means you can't mow for quite a long time. You're supposed to wait for the leaves to die, but I normally lose patience and mow the buggers down about the beginning of June.
If you bung them into the ground now, they'll probably be a bit late in the spring but I'd be surprised if they fail altogether.
Bear in mind that they are a bit of a pain when planted into the lawn, because after flowering you need to leave the leaves so that they can manufacture the food to store in the bulb for next year's flower(s). This means you can't mow for quite a long time. You're supposed to wait for the leaves to die, but I normally lose patience and mow the buggers down about the beginning of June.
Unless you store them correctly until next Autumn, they will rot. So plant them now and the majority will be fine and give you a decent enough show in the Spring and those that don't will sort themselves out in time for 2018.
Funnily enough I bought a couple of bags of Narcissus Tête á Tête last weekend as they had been reduced to clear in my local garden centre At £1.50 for a bag of 30 even if half of them don't make it, they were still a bargain.
Funnily enough I bought a couple of bags of Narcissus Tête á Tête last weekend as they had been reduced to clear in my local garden centre At £1.50 for a bag of 30 even if half of them don't make it, they were still a bargain.
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