I have just bought new daff bulbs for planting in October and need to keep them cool til then. Is it safe to store them in a fridge in my outside shed or will they suffer? I am anxious that they don’t get too hot (!!) in the meantime.
The shed will be fine. I’ve always just kept them somewhere out of direct sun in the house - I’d probably forget them if I put them in the shed 🙄
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Better to be planted - in pots, if you don't have a suitable site just now, and just keep them tucked somewhere out of extreme heat until they flower, or until you have a spot to put them in the ground
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I plant daffs as soon as I get them, usually in pots, then plant them out in spring when they and the older ones have started shooting and I can see the spaces to put them in.
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Thank you all. My shed is south facing and gets very hot & I am worried they’ll start sprouting too soon, thus putting them in the fridge for 6/7 weeks seems like quite a good idea. I intend to put all of these in pots anyway. Will they suffer in the fridge or is it a crazy idea?
I wouldn't store them in a closed fridge - working or not - far easier to either plant in pots as others have said or store in a cool dry space which avoids humidity. You can actually plant daffs from September to December tho the ideal would be mid Sept to end October depending where you are.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can actually plant daffs from September to December tho the ideal would be mid Sept to end October depending where you are.
Outside - in pots as already said.
Why do you think they need to be stored under cover ?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...