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storing tulips bulbs before planting
Every year it's the same story: garden centers start selling spring
bulbs so early! and if you wait for a month or two, they are almost all gone by then! In the past, I had relatively bad experiences at keeping bulbs bought in mid-August until, say, October for planting... I guess the temperature in my flat is too high (probably between 20C and 25C at this time of the year), and maybe it's to dry too.. When comes the time for planting, many bulbs are "empty shells", completely dried up. In the past I also tried to store them at the bottom of my house staircase (I live in a tenement flat in Edinburgh), but this was too damp and cold, and I had rotting and fungi disasters! So, this year, I decided to do this properly: I bought a shelf, some plastic boxes and bags of perlite. I opened the tulips (and other bulbs) bags, and arrange them in a layer of perlite in the boxes, then put the box at bthe bottom of the above mentioned staircase. I checked the temperatu it's around 15C, and probably relatively constant. I put a cover on the box to avoid the humidity to come in, and I thought that the perlite will be enough to keep the bulbs dry. Do you think it's the best way to go about it? Living in a flat, there are not many alternatives... Thanks Gogo |
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