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Old bulbs in supermarkets
there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils
for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? Lazarus -- Remover the rock from the email address |
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Old bulbs in supermarkets
Lazarus Cooke15/1/04 5:15
m there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? Lazarus Give them a go. If they don't do well this year, they probably will next year and that IS cheap! -- Sacha (remove the 'x' to email me) |
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In article , Lazarus
Cooke writes there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? You may not get many flowers next spring but they should recover and flower the year after. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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In article , Lazarus
Cooke writes there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? You may not get many flowers next spring but they should recover and flower the year after. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:15:06 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote: there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? Go for it. The ones to avoid are those that have begun to rot and/or shrink. These sprouting fellows *want* a new home. |
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:15:06 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote: there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? Go for it. The ones to avoid are those that have begun to rot and/or shrink. These sprouting fellows *want* a new home. |
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from Lazarus Cooke contains these words: there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? They will arise even as Lazarus arose, yea, even unto the sky shall they reach. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from Lazarus Cooke contains these words: there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? They will arise even as Lazarus arose, yea, even unto the sky shall they reach. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Old bulbs in supermarkets
I'd get a couple of quids worth.at around a penny a bulb what have you to
loose, and you will probably find them in flower in about 6 weeks, them next year just leaf and after that normal bulbs. Will help if you feed them with a tomato feed as soon as they flower. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Old bulbs in supermarkets
Jaques d'Alltrades15/1/04 6:13
The message from Lazarus Cooke contains these words: there's what looks like a good offer in my local safeway - 40 daffodils for 49p., redced from £3. The bulbs have just begun to sprout. Is there any point in buying them and planting them now? Or are they on the way out anyway? They will arise even as Lazarus arose, yea, even unto the sky shall they reach. Steady on. Daffs, not Polemoniums. ;-) -- Sacha (remove the 'x' to email me) |
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In article , David Hill david@abacus
nurseries.freeserve.co.uk writes I'd get a couple of quids worth.at around a penny a bulb what have you to loose, and you will probably find them in flower in about 6 weeks, them next year just leaf and after that normal bulbs. I know that's logical, since the flowers were formed during last season's growth, but by the same token, if you grow them well this year, then they should flower well in 2005. My experience in a similar situation was that it was the first year that didn't flower so well (ie some flowered in 6 weeks and others didn't), but the next season was fine. Will help if you feed them with a tomato feed as soon as they flower. Or as soon as they've been in long enough to get some decent roots going. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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Old bulbs in supermarkets
thanks for all your help. I've gone through two packets. (one about
three weeks ago seems to be growing already.) I'll rush back to Safeway's & see if there are any left! Lazarus (yes, like the daffs) -- Remover the rock from the email address |
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Old bulbs in supermarkets
thanks for all your help. I've gone through two packets. (one about
three weeks ago seems to be growing already.) I'll rush back to Safeway's & see if there are any left! Lazarus (yes, like the daffs) -- Remover the rock from the email address |
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