Daffodils

[Jessie]

I found a large bag of daffodil bulbs that I bought a few months ago and forgot about. I won't get time to plant them now until January, what's my best option, plant them in January (will they flower) or will they keep until autumn next year for planting?

[Jessie]

[Obelixx]

Get a bag of compost and put them in pots now so they can start to get their roots down.  Then in spring, when they flower, you can just transfer them to gaps in the border.  If you leave it till January the soil will like as not to be too wet/heavy/cold to work and also they risk drying out or rotting depending on how you've got them stored.

[Delilah]

Definately in pots - our market was selling off winter pansies cheap this weekend, I'm going to put the daffs in the same pot as the pansies - its a brill display when the daffs start to poke their way through the pansies :)

[Jessie]

good idea Obbelix but I forgot to mention the bag is a very large sack, not sure how many bulbs in there but must be into the hundreds, I wouldn't have enough pots :-[

[Rosa_Mundi]

Any sort of container will do, Daisy - even wooden vegetable boxes at a pinch, and you can plant them closely. If you leave them until January the risk of rotting or drying out a significant percentage is high.

[Mrs Ava]

I have daffs poking through the ground in my garden already!  :o

[Jessie]

Okay, thanks all, I'll see what I can find this weekend, I might be able to get my hands on a largish wooden crate. :)

[GREENWIZARD]

I have daffs poking through the ground in my garden already!

~ snap

[daisymay]

mine have started growing too!!

[Mimi]

I got a large sack of daff bulbs reduced to £1 the week before Christmas last year.  I bunged them all in right away and they flowered beautifully about the right time too. 


P.S.. snap me too Emma   ;D

[Jessie]

That's encouraging Mimi, perhaps I'll be okay then. :)

[MrsKP]

just having a browze though some of the older posts and came across this one.

what's the update on your daffs ? 

i've still just just got a bit of greenery but it seems to have been like it for weeks now.

:-\

[vee]

I planted some my daughter had had for over a year. They were a bit shrivelled up, but I threw the worst ones away and planted the rest at the allotment.
They are now coming through, but I don't know how good they will be or whether they will flower. I'm really surprised that they are growing at all as I wasn't a bit hopeful.

[Tulipa]

I found a bag I had bought and forgotten about in the garage last week so have just planted them so I would be intersted too Jessie.

[grawrc]

Mine are flowering now : miniatures and full size

[GREENWIZARD]

no daffs in flower yet but plenty of crocus & mini iris