Daffodil storage?

[wowomom]

I dug up some daffodils earlier to remake a flower bed. They had finished blooming but still had their green tops. They were matted together with some wonderful Tennessee clay dirt and centipede grass so I couldn't get them seperated and replanted the way I wanted to. What wound up happening was that I tossed them in a pile next to the front

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[virginiadear]

I believe most gardeners customarily relocate their hardy spring-flowering bulbs in the fall, so that for the bulbs it's a lot like a regular planting and causes the bulbs the least amount of stress.

That said, what is more important than when the bulbs are relocated to a new bed is how long they have to wait out of the ground before they get to their new bed, particularly as yours still had their green tops when you dug them up.

I recommend planting them promptly.

Just a suggestion: For your future convenience, one source recommends using (heavy-duty, presumably) plastic knives such as you'd buy for picnics or backyard barbecues stuck in the ground at the farthest-most points of a bulb bed (and innermost, if it's very irregularly shaped), so you know the area in which those bulbs are planted, and using something like a cheap window blind (the slatted kind, one of those mini-blind things) taken apart and with each slat cut into pieces and marked with the cultivar's name if you know it, or just the characteristics, e.g., "mini yellow & orange daffs" or "big ice-white narcissi."

[rhodielady_47]

I really LIKE your suggestions of using either the plastic knives or the cheap window blind slats as markers.
I'll be using one or the other very soon!
:)

[virginiadear]

That's very kind of you to say, and I appreciate the appreciation, but the credit doesn't go to me: those aren't suggestions I thought up. I don't recall where I read them, but I liked them when I saw them.

"I'll be using one or the other very soon!"
I hope you'll show us photos when you do! :^)

[rhodielady_47]

Gotta finish clearing away the weeds first.
:)

[virginiadear]

That your garden or any of your garden beds should have weeds is something around which i can't get my mind.

"Inconceivable!"

[rhodielady_47]

Considering that I was in very poor health for two years? Yes, I admit the weeds got away from me in the places I had trouble reaching.

You will be relieved to know, I think, that my health is rapidly returning to normal this spring and with it, my energy.
A few more weeks should see ALL of my flowerbeds neatly weeded and re-mulched on this two acres I call my Growlery.
:)

[virginiadear]

"You will be relieved to know, I think, that my health is rapidly returning to normal this spring and with it, my energy."

Always glad to hear or read good news, and this is very good news, indeed! :^)