Planting Bulbs

mikep

Hi all

I just found some packs of bulbs I had forgotten about...Is it too late to plant them now?

Mike

Irish Gardener

What varieties of bulbs, Mike.

mikep

Of course silly me...

They are just dafs and tulips!!

Irish Gardener

Tulip and daffodil bulbs both need a winter chill to enable root growth and to produce blooms in the spring.
I presume your bulbs were stored inside.
Because of this lack of chilling, they probably may not do much as planting them now is a bit late.
Plus the bulbs are probably drying out, having been out of the soil for so long.

However nothing ventured, nothing gained…
So plant them now into pots, water the pots and place them in the coldest spot within your garden you can find.
You could also put the potted bulbs into the lower shelf of your fridge, if you have the space.
This is to give the bulbs their required winter chill.

Once the warmer spring weather starts to appear, move the potted bulbs to a warm spot in the garden.
If the bulbs start to appear, you can apply a liquid feed to bring on the growth.
If they grow, they grow, if they don’t, they don’t.
Whatever the growth result, you can replant the remaining solid bulbs from the pots to the open ground in late summer / autumn

chuckles30

My mother planted some in january last year - like that they'd been forgotten about & were already shooting when she planted them, but as far as I remember they flowered. Definitely worth a try.

Worztron

I have a packet of bulbs (contains dahlia, irish and a few others) to be planted. Someone gave us them recently. Is it too late to plant them? I think the best time is between September and December. Am I too late?