Will they come again next year and what do i have to do with them now?ie. do i need to cut them down or anything? They are in a medium sized teracotta pot.
2007-09-01 03:51:53 · 13 answers · asked by nooka 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Let them die back naturally, give them a little general purpose fertiliser(tomato food will do) to help build them up for next year. Move the pots into a cold greenhouse over the winter (out of the frost).
2007-09-01 14:03:12 · answer #1 · answered by Big wullie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The seeds are not sterilized or they wouldn't grow in the first place. But most vegetable plants these days are hybrid and while the seed from them will certainly grow a plant it likely will not be the same as the mother plant. If you want to grow heirloom vegetables you can save and replant the seed from them. You are going to have to buy some seed each year, because most vegetables are harvested either before the seed appears or before it matures enough to be viable. Unless, of course, you plan to leave some in the garden until they do mature, which takes up more space, requires a longer growing season, and leaves you with less produce in the kitchen. If you are going to plant only a few vegetables each year, one packet of seeds will have quite a few left over, and with very few exceptions, vegetable seeds are good for two, three or even five years if they are kept cool and dry.
2016-04-02 21:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will come again next year, just feed with plant food once a week, to put the goodness back into the bulbs. When the stems have gone brown, take off. Keep watering another couple of weeks. Then lift the bulb's out, you should have some additional bulbs growing-split the bulbs off. put in a place to dry. Put in a paper bag until next May. The plant back into the tub's etc-start all over again.
2007-09-01 10:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by pigeonlegs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carefully lift them out of the compost. If the bulbs look healthy, store them in the shed and re-pot them next Spring.
2007-09-01 04:04:59 · answer #4 · answered by Andrew L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, they'll come back, bigger and better than ever! Unless they're in my garden, in which case, they're gone for good. Hard to believe that my sister is a professional horticulturalist when I'm such a plant murderer. LOL
2007-09-01 04:01:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would take the plant, dirt and all and find a place in my yard and plant them. And then next year they would have a better chance of coming back and multiplying
2007-09-01 04:08:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cut them off about a fore-finger from the ground. Leave them in the ground, i leave mine and they have flowered every year. The biggest problem i have is with little red beetles but that is when they are flowering. I have quite a variety of them and i wish you luck with yours. Take care.
2007-09-01 04:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do die of this time of year. Cut them down a bit. They should come up every year.
2007-09-01 03:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by jenny flower 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just thought that as you are asking about Lillie's i would tell you that they are poisonous.My friends cat was poisoned by the powder on the stamen it was strong enough to kill it.So i assume you or your neighbours don't have cats.Remember to wash your hands.
2007-09-01 10:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cut mine to about 1-1/12 inch . They are bulbs...they'll come back
2007-09-01 04:20:27 · answer #10 · answered by Boston Pattianne55 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋