Good reasons that make transplanting useful
Transplanting Daffodils is recommended every year for pot culture. The reason is that the bulbs take up space from the main onion and the soil is depleted. Daffodils in open ground should be transplanted for the same reasons. But this is not necessary every year. It is sufficient to implement them every 3 to 4 years.
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When should you transplant daffodils?
Daffodils should be transplanted at the end of their growing season. That is usually after the Heyday the case between May / June. You can tell when the time is right when the leaves are yellow or brown and have dried up.
Alternatively, daffodils can be transplanted in the fall. But then there is a high probability that you will no longer find it because the entire aboveground plant has withdrawn into its underground bulb. It is no longer visible on the surface.
Transplant / repot the daffodils in the pot
Daffodils in a pot are replanted / repotted as follows:
- Dig up onions
- Separate the bulbs and, if necessary, dispose
- choose a new pot (min. 20 cm deep and 10 cm wide)
- Pot with pebbles and Potting soil fill quarter full
- Insert the onion (s)
- fill up with potting soil
- water lightly
- put in a cool place
Transplant daffodils in the bed - in the right place at the right time
When transplanting daffodils in the bed, you can at the same time increased will. The main onion should be freed from the brooding onions, as they would otherwise dispute the nutrients in the soil.
Regardless of propagation, transplanting goes as follows:
- Onions with spade dig out at a generous distance (approx. Prick 20 cm deep)
- Remove soil from onions
- Sort out rotten, injured, dried out onions and dispose of them
- choose a new location
- Dig the planting hole three times as deep as the diameter of the onion and add compost to the soil
- Insert onions and cover with soil
Tips & Tricks
Daffodils should be planted in a place with at least 2 hours of sunshine a day.