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Forgot to plant out daffodils last Autumn

Thomas GardenerThomas Gardener Posts: 23
in Problem solving
Hi

I’ve got a couple paper bags of Carlton and Thalia which I didn’t get around to planting out last autumn. They’ve been in the house next to a radiator all winter so they’ve been kept warm and dry. Checking yesterday, I can see that they’ve started to try growing. Is there anything I can do with these to save them, or are they wasted now? 

Thanks!

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd get them planted - pots or anything you have, if you don't want to put them in the ground. They will be very dry if they've been next to a radiator all winter too.

    They should be well on the way to budding and flowering by now, so it may be too late, but if you get them planted in some way, they should at least have a chance of building up for next year.
    After they flower [if they do]  give them a little liquid feed as the foliage starts dying back, and that will give them a boost as well. If they don't flower, you an still do that once they look like they're dying back again  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Thomas GardenerThomas Gardener Posts: 23
    Thanks all. I’ll chuck them in the ground at the allotment and cross my fingers!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you don't want to follow @pansyface's advice - you can always use the other method @Thomas Gardener

    Shout 'grow ya b**gers' at them  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Hexagon said:
    How about garlic? I only managed to plant about half the garlic I had, and they've started sprouting the shed.

    Plant them - worst that will happen is they will swell into a single large unsplit bulb which can either be used in the ktchen when harvested or lifted and planted again in the autumn.  They need a period of cold to trigger them to split into cloves but they may have had that while in the shed over winter, so worth planting whatever happens.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Thomas GardenerThomas Gardener Posts: 23
    For the curious, here’s my summer daffodils coming up after bunging them into a trench at the allotment a few weeks ago. 😂 (sorry don’t know why the image is rotated or how to fix that)


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