Bulbs. Grit or no grit.

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  September 2021

  Monty mixes grit with compost to sit his bulbs on. That is what I'm going to do with my new garden in SW France as it's heavy clay. In OH's garden in Norfolk it's quite sandy so I just planted them.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• newbie77 Posts: 1,838

  September 2021

  My garden has poor drainage and I don't put grit at the bottom of planting hole. I worry that the water will pool there and bulb will be sitting on top of pool. 

  South West London

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  September 2021

  That's often the problem @newbie77. You just create a sump. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  September 2021

  newbie77 said:

  My garden has poor drainage and I don't put grit at the bottom of planting hole. I worry that the water will pool there and bulb will be sitting on top of pool. 

  exactly

  Devon.

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• mayjar Posts: 6

  September 2021

  Thanks everyone for replying to my original query.  An interesting variety of answers.
  Overall, I'm not going to bother with grit in the hole anymore.
  But most of you mix it in with the compost/backfill, so that's what I'll be doing from now on.
  Fingers crossed.
  Thanks all.

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• pandakoalagirl49lS9c8QR_ Posts: 71

  September 2021

  I do plunk a lot of grit under and around them, but we do get ***rain*** here 

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