Mistake Planting Garlic - Can I Dig Up and Replant?
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Who digs up and replants their same tulips yearly?
Comments (12)Tulips are different from daffodils. Unless the daffodils are smitten with hungry grubs or speared by the gardener, they'll sit and clump up and flower until they're overcrowded. Tulips grow to flowering size, do their thing, then produce daughter bulbs which then have to grow to flowering size. If you have a clump of species tulips you can see this going on season by season. If they aren't deep enough they produce 'dropper' roots and pull themselves further into the ground. It's a fascinating structure to see. If you want a guaranteed display of a particular tulip then your best bet is to buy fresh each year to be sure of uniform flowering and creating the picture you had in mind. If you have one of 'those' gardens (like mine!), where the leaves are as welcome as the flowers, then you can dig up and replant each year. Or you can leave them in place. Generally, in this zone and place, I do not fridge my bulbs. Not any of them. They resent it to death. In zones with baking summers I can see it could be necessary to persuade the bulbs that it's time to put out the starter roots before winter sets in. A little shiver down the spine, so to speak. For me, one tulip I can count on to return without being lifted is 'Spring Green'. And T violacaea. Most of the others are taken out, left so the leaves fall, then put into net bags and hung in a cool shaded place. They stay there until I replant in May and June (your November-December). However, there are always daughter bulbs that go unremarked until they show up the following spring. If you don't like that, and digging is not an option, then you can use a Roundup wiper wand on the leaf to remove the problem....See MoreMistake Planting Garlic - Can I Dig Up and Replant?
Comments (1)You might as well. The only chance to have decent sized garlic is to plant the toes individually. tj...See MoreCan I dig up and replant these plants?
Comments (2)I'm not sure if you are talking about daylilies. If they are then you can safely move them. I had just divided my daylilies a couple weeks ago and replanted them in my mother's garden. Some of them were about two feet tall, so I cut off more than half the leaves before I replanted them. The outer leaves yellowed a bit the first week, but the new leaves are pushing out from the center of the plants. They are looking very healthy now. I live in zone 9. Good luck....See MoreDig up & replant tomatoes?
Comments (6)If you had purchased them with flowers or fruits already on them I would have suggested pinching them off. This isn't the case, so I don't think you have to do that. Over the last month they have probably been working hard on developing their roots. Planting them deeper would have allowed them to develop more roots along their stem, but this is not a necessity. I would say leave them alone rather than risking injury to the expanding root system. Since they have begun to flower, it sounds like they are happy and healthy where they are. Kim Here is a link that might be useful: Kim's Garden...See More- 12 years ago
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