These I grew from seed but if I do get any bare root plants I always start them off in pots and keep in the greenhouse. The slugs like the new shoots so maybe thats why you lost them. Or, as others say, you do need to keep them damp to start with.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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The one I planted last year appeared quite a while ago - whereabouts are you Ben?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dry roots in a bag?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mine are up already.
Hi dovefromabove in Sussex so imagine something isnt right. Yes nutcutlet.
Mine's been up in Sheffield for quite a few weeks now. Did you plant direct into soil or into a pot to grow on?
I think those roots have sometimes been too dry for too long. They need a good soak and some mollycoddling to bring them round
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mine came up but the wood pigeons kept eating them ????
Those question marks were meant to be a cross face!
These I grew from seed but if I do get any bare root plants I always start them off in pots and keep in the greenhouse. The slugs like the new shoots so maybe thats why you lost them. Or, as others say, you do need to keep them damp to start with.
How many plants you got there Lyn?
That's a clump to be reckoned with