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Posted by amarcus Sa Aust (My Page) on Sat, Aug 27, 05 at 21:05
| Hi My pots of bulbs have flowered.What should i do with them now? Was planning to put them at the side of the house and ignore till next year.Any advice please ta andrew |
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RE: bulbs in summer
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| Depends what they are. Most spring bulbs can just be put under a tree in a dry spot as you describe. They need the green foliage left on them so the bulb can absorb nutrient from the leaves. |
RE: bulbs in summer
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| When I moved here in spring to an empty garden I just dug holes and planted the whole contents. If you do want to save them you put them in a marked shady spot till the foliage is gone and lift, as Sparaxis says. |
RE: bulbs in summer
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| You've got the right idea, but don't ignore them just yet. It's important you continue to water and give them at least 3 feeds of liquid fertiliser until the foliage dies down. Then you need to cover them, so they don't continue to get wet, and leave until planting time next year. You can either plant them in the garden or re pot into fresh potting mix. Some bulbs don't like being grown in pots for more than a year or two, but you haven't said what sort you have, so I can only give general advice. |
RE: bulbs in summer
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| I bought a pot of daffodil "geranium" the first year we moved here, as we had no flowers in the garden at all. I saw them in K-mart in bloom and had to have them. When they finished blooming I forgot about them, and they fell off the deck and into the garden. I found them the following Spring having grown sideways out of the pot and starting to bloom. All the soil above the bulbs had fallen out of the pot. I cut the flowers for a vase and made a mental note to plant them soon. The following year the pot was standing up, I had still forgotten to plant them or top up the soi, and they bloomed prolifically. None of the roots were in the ground, just in the potting mix. This year I found the pot with new growth on the bulbs and the roots growing in the impoverished 3cm of soil below the bulbs in the 15cm pot. These bulbs had never been watered or fed in 3 years, and had increased from 4 to 20 or so fat, healthy bulbs. I planted them out and they are blooming well now. If you have daffodils don't worry too much about the feeding and watering. They will be fine, but I would recommend repotting them each year into fresh mix with a layer of well rotted cow manure in the bottom of the pot. |
RE: bulbs in summer
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Sparaxis
What an amazing story!
Michelle |
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