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Spring bulbs - what to do with ones I have found?
Hello I am quite new to gardening & have had an allotment for about a year. I enthusiastically bought a lot of Spring bulbs last year (2015) that should have been planted in the autumn. However they got pushed to the back of the shed & I just found them. They are in nets & have little tubers growing from them. They look quite healthy. If I plant them now, will they come up in the Spring of 2017? Or should I plant them in Autumn 2016 or just bin them?
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Plant them, they may do OK and flower next year.
Don't keep them til autumn. Bin them if they'll take up too much space in your garden.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They need to be planted in pots or in the ground or they'll wither and die. I potted some up 4 weeks ago after finding them hiding in my garage. Most are shooting and the hyacinths have flower buds. Even if they don't flower this year they'll grow foliage and roots and feed the bulb for flowers next year.
What sort of bulbs are they?
Thank you everyone for your speedy responses. Much appreciated.