I'm feeling pretty cross with myself and my big ugly car this afternoon. I somehow managed to run over the lovely pot of crocus and tulip bulbs on my doorstep, smashing it to pieces.
It's such a terrible shame, because I think it's going to be very hard to re pot them at this stage, now that the roots are so well established. Big hairy bums.
On a more chirpy note, I've started chitting my early seed potatoes and am looking forward to watching them sprouting up, ready for sowing.
I've never grown potatoes before as they take up so much room and are so cheap and readily available to buy. However, as we still have the use of Pear Tree Cottage garden this year I thought we'd try some out up there and see how they get on.
Thank goodness it's half term- work has been entirely relentless for the last few weeks and I've been looking forward to having next week off since I went back after Christmas. Let's hope the weather cheers up- we have lots of outdoor plans lined up.
I reckon you can pot them up again, if you are gentle with the roots. I am sure they are pretty sturdy plants. I am relieved its half term too... boys are exhausted. See you very soon! lou x
ReplyDeletei agree with lou, i would definatley try to repot again, if they dont work out at least you had tryed, and if it does work fab you will still have your lovely tulips and crocuses x
ReplyDeletehope you have a good half term week x
aw, I would be so upset too if I ran over my tulips! By the way, I love your photos, they are perfectly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI read on 'Miss Pickering' (a lovely floral blog) that the bulbs don;t need soil and she had hers displayed in jars looking very stylish so all might not be lost.
ReplyDeleteThankyou all- I am going to try and re pot them tomorrow and see how I get on. Hopefully they won't mind x
ReplyDeletehooray for half term, i'm so glad to have a week off with the kids, hope your pot's work out, you can't beat a home grown spud, my mum's taste better than any brought ones!
ReplyDelete:-( poor tulips. How did you get on with re-potting them? Plants are hardy things so I'm sure they'll survive. How is the car?! What variety of potatoes are you going to grow? I never know which are the best as I'm still a novice veg grower. X
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