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Making bulbs last another year
Sue Partridge
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This year I have been given several pots of indoor daffodil bulbs. When they have finished flowering I would like to plant them outside either in pots or in the ground.
The trouble is that when I have done this in the past the bulbs have sunk without trace.
Any ideas please?
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It depends on what kind they were and how they were treated. Paperwhites are often forced and grown for indoors and they don't seem to survive this. If they were something like Tete a tete which are fairly early into flower anyway, and not given too much heat, they should survive transplanting, though they may not flower well in their first year outside as they need to rebuild their reserves.
Thank you for that-they are Tete a Tete. How deep should I plant them?
General rule of thumb with most bulbs tends to be double the depth of the bulb. Indoor ones always seem to be on the surface so you need to bury the leaves a bit or you could leave them in the pots & plant in september.
I had lots of pots of indoor bulbs (mainly tete a tete) when I moved in to new house, they all went into the garden and now have lots of flowers
They need a feed with high potassium feed like tomato food after flowering and the leaves need to be left to die down naturally, providing they do not get too wet (ie sit in boggy clay for the rest of the year) they should come back next spring.
Thank you very much for help.