When's the latest you can plant Autumn Bulbs

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  December 2022

  asap, they don't store, they shrivel up. But you can get away with very late planting, go for it, nothing to lose

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Perki Posts: 2,527

  December 2022

  As Nutcutlet has mentioned ASAP , I've been planting like mad this week still got about 500+ to go . 

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• 1sthomegarden Posts: 22

  December 2022

  Great Thanks. Best get my bulb planter out this weekend 😊. Got about 30 left to do. 

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  December 2022

  If they're small bulbs, soak them overnight or at least for an hour or two before planting.  Re-hydrating can help a lot with results of late planting.

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• 1sthomegarden Posts: 22

  January 2023

  Thanks for all the advice. Got my bulbs in on 29th December 👍. Let's hope the come up well in Spring 🙏

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  January 2023 edited January 2023

  Start thinking "when Is the earliest I can plant bulbs in autumn 2023".
  
  Don't buy any more than you can cope with.
  
  I can read a lot into your saying just "bulbs", rather than saying. daffodil, crocus, tulip...

   location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
  "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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• 1sthomegarden Posts: 22

  January 2023

  Good shout. Though it's easy to get carried away 😊

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  January 2023

  Don't worry @relentlessgardener. You aren't the first, or the last, person who has bought bags of bulbs late - or had them still hanging around past their ideal planting time. Loads of folk this past couple of months have posted re this subject. Most gardeners have done it as some point - no one's perfect 
  
  All fine, as long as the bulbs aren't dried out/rotted. They may not be at their best, or will flower later, but you'll get a display, and if nothing else, they should be fine the following year     

  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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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  January 2023

  I do sometimes wonder how many people buy bulbs when they're reduced, look at the instructions and think it's OK to keep them in the shed until the next autumn. It's good that people ask, because there's next to no chance of them growing well (or at all) if kept for another season.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  January 2023

  Indeed @JennyJ. That's when the forum is so useful 
  I'm sure I probably did it - especially when I didn't have much money for the garden, and was a real novice. The forum would have been a great asset back then.
  Bulbs are available in so many outlets too, so there's always going to be a surplus, and therefore lots of reduced ones.
  Perhaps another topic they could cover on gardening programmes? 

  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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