I bought large bulbs of beautiful flowers, some of which were already growing in the garden this summer. Is it possible to plant and replant now? – asks Elga from Salaspils.
Now is the right time to plant bulbous flowers, including decorative onions. If they are purchased, they are immediately planted in the ground, like other bulbous plants, to a depth equal to three times the height of the bulb. Some gardeners believe that they need to be planted deeper, but practice proves otherwise.
Decorative onions are not afraid of frost, even if the soil has settled after watering and the bulbs are closer to the surface.
Medium-sized ornamental onions can reproduce themselves, scattering throughout the garden.
Often small bulbs are visible in the flower bed. Now they should be collected and planted deeper. If these self-seeds take root in the spring and are too close to the surface, they will be unstable.
If there are too many bulbs, small ones can be removed. Usually the frequency of transplants does not require special care. They replant when they renew the soil in the flowerbed or want to propagate bulbs.
Decorative onions with especially large flowers can grow in one place for a long time, but the size of the inflorescences will decrease every year.
This is due to the fact that every season a new bulb grows. If in the second year two peduncles with fairly large balls appear, then, unfortunately, in the third and fourth years the flowers will no longer be so impressive.
Therefore, now you can dig up the bulbs a little and separate the excess ones. You can also plant them back in their original place, but each bulb separately, keeping the distance.
Source: www.gorod.lv
