Helpful Tips
Some tips & tricks for planting your Bulbs/Seeds
- Plant your bulbs/tubers as soon as possible after purchase. If you need to store them for a while, keep them well ventilated & dry.
- Sometimes bulbs can be mouldy, this is a natural process due to high humidity – this does not impact its flowering ability. Brush off the mould and plant straight away into the ground.
- If bulbs get too dry try to soak them in cold water for a few hours before planting.
- Never plant bulbs deeper than 5x the size of the bulb.
- Do not plant when soil is too cold or frozen.
- Water well when planting, then once every week.
- If you don’t use all the seeds from your pack, you can keep them until next season by storing them in a cool dry place.
- Replant Daffodils & Crocus every 5 years approx. to prevent overcrowding.
- Less hardy bulbs such as Dahlias or Begonias should be lifted each year. Lift when first frosts have blackened the foliage. Dry out before placing in storage in a well ventilated area. Protect from frost using newspaper or dry peat.
- Split your Dahlia tubers to increase your stock.
- Gladioli corms can also be lifted. Cut the foliage and flower spike about 2 inches above the corm. Remove smaller cormels that have grown on original corm and use these to increase your stock.