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What to do with
Goldfinch 60
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Good evening all from a wet and cold manchester.
Two questions.
1. Pots of Tulips have flowered their socks off, is it Ok to put them in the compost.
2. I have a dead apple tree in a pot, I think it had canker, however, a Foxglove is growing in the pot, can I replant the foxglove and spread the soil on the compost.
Thankyou
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i've moved foxgloves this week and gave them a good water in and they are fine. My tulips flowered again this year in a pot after flowering last year, are you throwing them away for any reason?
not sure on the compost question though
If you don't want the tulips to keep going (a waste, I'd say) there's no reason I can thnk of why they shouldn't be composted.
Not sure about the soil from ther cankered tree - it would depend on how the disease is spread, which I don't know.
Thankss for your replys.
!. Sanjay, / Steve. not throwing them away for a reason, just I didnt think that they would do well next year.
I will move foxglove.
thanks all
I always plant pots of tulips in the border - if they don't appear next year they compost themselves! Foxgloves transplant easily and I'm pretty sure canker is transmitted by airborne spores or insects so I wouldn't worry about the soil.
Last year I did tip some smaller bulbs that I didn't want into my compost bin...guess what they grew! I haven't rescued them but nature does want to grow doesn't she.