GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - saving tulip and daffodil bulbs over winter

jab · 25-10-2006, 06:40 PM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:

Here in Central New York (Zone 5), it is pretty much too late to plant
tulip and daffodil bulbs. I received them late and it's been raining
almost nonstop, with temperatures from the low 40s to mid50s. Is it
safe to plant these bulbs, or should they be preserved until spring?
If I have to preserve them over winter, how do I do that?

Plant them now as long as the ground is not frozen. They will not keep
very well otherwise. I know from finding forgotten bulbs in the spring.
JAB