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Overwintering daffodil bulbs
Last summer I dug up about 500 daffodil bulbs after they died back, to make room for veggie patch. Managed to replant some 200 in a wild grass area this autumn, and they're all coming up fine. But that leaves 300 bare bulbs in buckets in an unheated garage and they're starting to sprout. Any views on how to best keep them so I can plant out later this year? Thanx.
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You need to plant them now or lose them.
Line them out in a veg plot if you have nowhere else.
Daffodils flower in spring and they need to be out there. Containers would do.
In the sticks near Peterborough
If you don't plant them now they'll rot and die. They need to be growing - you can't make them stay dormant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You should really plant them somewhere permanent from the outset. They are not meant to be lifted and replanted. You should put them somewhere they can naturalise in beds, borders, or grass and just leave them alone. Pots are fine too as long as you are prepared to leave the leaves on until they have completely died back. They need the leaves to feed the bulb to produce flowers for the following year, so don't tie them up or cut them off or you wont get any flowers.
Very many thanks for the advice from the three of you. Guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow assuming no more snow!
Good luck - 300 is a lot!
Dig a trench and chuck them in, a few inches apart, and cover with 4 inch of soil. Cut the flowers that come up for the house, When they die down, lift them and then remember to replant in September /October where you want them. You can treat daffs pretty rough and get away with it.
Heel them in for now,(dig a trench and just lay them side by side until next year when
you can plant them where you want them.
Bill.
Great minds think alike, Bill.
Are you still snowed in?