Planting flower bulbs: Not too early, otherwise they will sprout
Created: 09/21/2022, 19:30
By: Ines Alms
Good things take time.
If you plant flower bulbs too early, you risk that the bulbs will sprout and freeze to death when the temperature drops.
By September at the latest, you will find a large selection of flower bulbs in every discounter, which you have to plant in autumn so that they will bloom next spring.
But if you catch the wrong time, the tubers will start to sprout too early and freeze to death.
Planting flower bulbs: Not too early, otherwise they will sprout
Flower bulbs are commercially available, but it may be too early to plant.
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The early bird doesn't always find the worm.
If you plant the freshly bought flower bulbs in the ground in September, you could be unlucky if the warm autumn days are still coming.
Because the higher temperatures fool the tubers into thinking spring and stimulate them to grow.
Therefore, you should wait until mid-October, when the leaves on the trees turn yellow, garden professional Dieke van Dieken recommends in the
Grünstadtmenschen
podcast .
The disadvantage of buying the flower bulbs too early: Depending on the variety, they dry out easily, so they should actually be planted in the ground right away.
Therefore, it is usually better to wait a little before shopping for flowers.
When the time comes and you can plant the bulb flowers, you should consider the following:
When shopping, it is best to grab loose goods or onions in nets, advises
NDR television
so that you can better assess the quality.
The bulbs should be dry, have a smooth skin and not yield to pressure.
In addition, no mold should be visible.
As far as the planting distance is concerned, it is easy to misjudge: so that you later have a densely blooming flower bed, it should not be too large.
Calculate about two to five centimeters for smaller onions and about eight centimeters for large ones.
If you put the flower bulbs in the bed, Gärtner Pötschke
recommends
planting them two to three times as deep as the bulb is tall or thick.
In loamy soils but not as deep as in sandy ones, otherwise the shoot has a more difficult path to the light.
Classic flower bulbs such as tulips, daffodils or crocuses can even be planted until Christmas.
You can find even more exciting garden topics in the regular newsletter of our partner 24garten.de.
If you want to cultivate your spring flowering bulbs in a pot, you can use the so-called tier or lasagne planting, in which the bulbs are layered on top of each other.