Wanted Please - Harrogate / York / Leeds area

[Luvachicken]

I really need to use 2 barrel halfs that are full of daffodils.

Usually I leave any dafs in the ground but I really need the barrels for my sweet peas.

I assume I just pull them up, but then what do I do with them ?

 

Thanks xx

[Cinnamon]

My old neighbour used to dig his up every year & store them in his she for re planting in the Autumn.

Mad,IMHO

 

However,if you do need to shift them,wait until the foliage has died back,then just lift them & replant them....that is what I would do

If you can't wait & want to do it now (as I would - no patience me once I have a plan in mind),I would just re plant them & hope for the best - you have nothing to lose really

[chickencam]

I have taken up quite a few of mine and discarded them, this year, because they seem to come up blind the next year. I have decided that i would rather plant fresh each autumn. We have very nasty clay soil.

[Duncan08]

I have a load of containers with daffs and spring bulbs, they are planted low in the containers and stay there year round. Now they are all dying back I will give them a couple of weeks, trim off the browned leaves and take out the top layer of compost. Add a fresh layer of compost to the containers and plant my annuals for the summer.

 

At the end of the season, I take out the dead annuals, add a little compost and leave them out ready for the spring.

 

I have a large flower border that is planted with hundreds of bulbs. This is starting to look very yucky now. Will allow them another couple of weeks to die back then just flatten the stalks left and add a thin layer of compost and plant in the annuals.

 

The longer you can face the ugliness of the dying stems the stronger they will come back next year. It is still a bit cold at night to put out the annuals, so they have a little longer to wait!

 

If you want to pull them up, do it on a dry day and lay them out to dry a little in the sun. Then store them in a cool dark place. An old washing basket is good as the ventation helps to stop any mold forming. Then just plant them as normal in the autumn.

[Luvachicken]

I am too impatient as well, and as today is my day off for doing a course on a saturday I wanted to make the most of my time. So I have pulled them up already - sadly it is raining - and they are just lying on the grass. They had very good root systems so I hope they don't suffer next year.

I just need the rain to ease off a bit so I can put the sweet peas in.

 

I think I will put them on a shelf in the greenhouse for now.

[Duncan08]

They should be fine on a shelf in the greenhouse.

If you let them dry out a bit, then put them somwhere dark for the summer they should be fine for replanting.

[Luvachicken]

Thanks Duncan08.

[sjp]

I have taken up quite a few of mine and discarded them, this year, because they seem to come up blind the next year. I have decided that i would rather plant fresh each autumn. We have very nasty clay soil.

they tend to come blind the next year if they were cut back to early or tied in knots with results in small bulbs with don't flower. all mine get left in the ground orthe tubs year on year one or 2 of the clumps in the lawn have been there at least 20 years I cut mine back in late May as I plant out the summer bedding plants

[chickencam]

I believe that there is a pest that affects them and makes them blind in certain soils. I have some in a large tub with a small magnolia and they come up good as gold every year, but the ones in open ground don't. We have poor soil that we have been conditioning for 18 years and it is still prety bad, I always let them die down naturally but have had this problem, so find it better to either plant them in pots and morve them around to bare areas in the spring or just plant fresh each autumn, which I did last year and will do again this year.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I really need to use 2 barrel halfs that are full of daffodils.

Usually I leave any dafs in the ground but I really need the barrels for my sweet peas.

I assume I just pull them up, but then what do I do with them ?

 

Thanks xx

 

I think if you did that at this time of year you might as well throw them in the bin.

They have not made any stores. You could just move them "in the green" and let them grow on somewhere else in the garden.

BUT

I have grown allsorts in containers that have had daffs including sweet peas.

Why don't you just plant the sweet peas in between the daffodils?

[Luvachicken]

I really need to use 2 barrel halfs that are full of daffodils.

Usually I leave any dafs in the ground but I really need the barrels for my sweet peas.

I assume I just pull them up, but then what do I do with them ?

 

Thanks xx

 

I think if you did that at this time of year you might as well throw them in the bin.

They have not made any stores. You could just move them "in the green" and let them grow on somewhere else in the garden.

BUT

I have grown allsorts in containers that have had daffs including sweet peas.

Why don't you just plant the sweet peas in between the daffodils?

 

 

Oooer, I might plant them somewhere else tomorrow.

The daffs were very close together so no room for sweetpeas anyway.

I'm sure in the old days people used to pull their daffs up - oh well. I'll rescue them tomorrow.