The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs


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In order to welcome the coming spring in all its colorful splendor, you have to make your first preparations already at the end of the gardening year. If you want to plant pots or only have a small amount of surface available and still do not want to forego a full flower, you can count on the planting of the layer, the so-called lasagna method. It combines large and small flower bulbs and sets them depending on their size deep or shallow in the flowerpot. By exploiting different plant levels, the flowering of flowers in the spring is then particularly dense.

Material and tools at a glance

Material and tools at a glance

For our planting idea, you need a very deep terracotta pot with about 28 centimeters in diameter, a potsherd, expanded clay, plastic fleece, high quality potting soil, three hyacinths' Delft Blue ', seven daffodils' Baby Moon', ten grape hyacinths, three horn violets' Golden Yellow 'and a planter and a watering can. There are also any decorative material such as ornamental squash, deco branch and sweet chestnuts.

With a shard deduction holes are covered

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The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: bulbs

Large drainage holes should first be covered with a pottery shard so that the granules of the drainage layer are not washed out of the pot during casting

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: layer

A layer of expanded clay on the bottom of the pot serves as drainage. It should be about three to five centimeters high depending on the depth of the vessel and is slightly leveled after filling by hand

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: bulbs

Cover the expanded clay with a piece of plastic fleece so that the drainage layer does not mix with the potting soil and the roots of the plants can not grow into it

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: lasagna

With the potting soil, fill the pot up to half of the total height and lightly press it with your hands. If possible, use a good quality substrate from a brand manufacturer

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: bulbs

As the first planting layer, three hyacinth bulbs of the cultivar 'Delft Blue' are now placed on the potting soil at an approximately even distance

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: layer

Then fill in more soil and compact it slightly until the tips of the hyacinth bulbs are covered about finger-high

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: method

As the next layer we use seven bulbs of the multi-flowered dwarf narcissus 'Baby Moon'. It is a yellow flowering variety

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: flower

Also cover this layer with the plant substrate and compact it lightly with your hands

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: layer

Grape hyacinths (Muscari armeniacum) form the last onion layer. Spread ten pieces evenly on the surface

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: bulbs

Yellow horn violets are now placed with the pot bales directly on the onions of the grape hyacinths. Three plants can comfortably sit in the pot

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: layer

Fill the gaps between the pots with potting soil and gently press them with your fingers. Then water well

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs: flower

Finally, we decorate our pot suitable for the season with orange dyed natural rye, chestnuts and a small ornamental squash

With a shard deduction holes are covered

A layer of expanded clay serves as a drainage

The pot is laid out with fleece

Now fill the pot with potting soil to about half of the total height

Place hyacinth bulbs on the potting soil as the first plant layer

Subsequently, more soil is poured into the pot

Narcissus bulbs are placed in the ground

The onions are again covered with earth and pressed

Grape hyacinths make up the last layer

Put horn violets directly on the onions

The gaps between the pot balls are filled with potting soil

Decorate the pot according to the season

The Lasagna Method: A pot of flower bulbs

FAQ - 💬

❓ What is the lasagne bulb method?

👉 Lasagne planting involves planting layers of bulbs in pots, just like making lasagne. The latest-flowering bulbs are planted at the bottom of the pot, with layers of earlier-flowering bulbs above them. The result is a pot crammed with wave after wave of spring flowers, giving you colour right through spring.

❓ How to make a lasagne bulb pot?

👉 To get dense and flowery spring pot displays, you have to try layering bulbs in what the Dutch call a bulb lasagne, layering them up one on top of another. The largest and latest flowering bulbs go in deepest, moving to the smallest and earliest in the top layer.

❓ What is lasagna planting?

👉 This is where the lasagna planting technique comes in. By cleverly layering a pot or dish with different varieties of bulbs, you can create a container that is constantly blooming, from late February all the way to mid-June. The later the variety blooms, the lower down you plant them.Сохраненная копия

❓ What is the best pot for a bulb lasagne?

👉 What size container do I need? Typically bulb lasagnes are planted in large containers, at least 30cm diameter and reasonably deep. However, if space is limited, you can easily plant a bulb lasagne in a much smaller pot. We've made one in a windowsill planter and only included three types of bulbs.

❓ When to do a bulb lasagne?

👉 Autumn is the perfect time to plant bulbs for spring flowers, so if you'd like to have a go at planting a bulb lasagne, here's how to do it.

❓ What bulbs are used in bulb lasagne?

👉 It includes crocus, two types of iris, grape hyacinth, daffodil, and tulip bulbs. I chose the bulbs to give the longest flowering period possible, but you could keep yours much simpler. Planting just two types of bulbs can create a two-layer bulb lasagne.

Video Board: How to Layer Spring Flowering Bulbs: Lasagne Planting with Jeff.

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