The bulb flowerstake up most of the space in my garden. Although they bloom for a short time, there is nothing more beautiful than the sight of unfolded crocuses, tulips, narcissus, iris, garlic or wintergreen.
As a beginner gardener, I made many mistakes in growing onion flowers. For example, I didn't know that they needed a lot of sun. I was surprised that the bearded irises that I planted in a shaded area hardly bloomed at all. In addition, it was too wet there and the plants were often sick. I also learned that if the tulips have smaller and smaller flowersand they put out a lot of extra young plants in the environment, it's time to replant them.Such treatment not only improves their condition, but also prevents soil depletion and the spread of diseases.
Dotransplantlooking for places where no other onion flowers have grown before. I also never plant them where strawberries, wild strawberries and tomatoes used to grow.
Repotting I repeat every 3-4 years. I dig out the bulbs when the shoots and leaves are not completely dry after flowering. For narcissus, tulips and crocuses, this is late June or early July.
I dig out garlic in late July and early August. I very gently separateonionsthat form at the heel of the mother onion. I remove the soil and remnants of dried leaves and separate the individual bulbs. Dried and cleaned, I keep in a shed in signed paper bags. They have good air circulation and the right temperature there. A neighbor once told me that onions cannot be stored together with fruit and vegetables, because it harms the shoots and flowers.And there is something to it!I plant winter trees already in August, so that they have time to bloom in the fall. Narcissi right after them.
And in early October I am planting tulips, garlic and crocuses. I prepare the wells three times the height of the onion.
Bearded scythes, now growing on a sunny rockery, I also replant them every 4 years. Always in August. I only take he althy young rhizomes with one fan of leaves for reproduction. I trim the roots to about 15 cm, shorten the leaves by half, and immediately plant them shallowly in a new place.
Over the years I have worked out a method for voles: I plant onions in plastic boxes dug into the ground.
Edyta Wojciechowska
