On 1/4/09 11:39, in article , "Spider"
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 1/4/09 10:23, in article , "shazzbat"
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"Bill P" wrote in message
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I have been reading posts in this forum for some time now and found a
lot
of useful information.
So, I have a question.
Begonia tubers. Do you cover the tubers with compost or do you leave
the
top half exposed.?
last year I covered them and lost at least half.
Instructions that came with the tubers were.
Fill a shallow tray with good compost and press the tuber gently in?

They must have said that for a reason. Same thing as with peonies then.
I'll
be doing begonia tubers later, so I'll do what they say, since ours came
from a neighbour with no instructions.

Steve


Ray just came in so I asked him and he said the just pressing them into
compost, leaving the tops uncovered thing, is what he does.
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That's interesting. I've always just lightly covered mine and been
successful, but it's always worth trying something different.

snip

Maybe size does make a difference. ;-) He's usually working with quite
large ones.
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Sacha
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South Devon
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