Originally posted by notmilk
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After a few days you can shake off or rub off most of the soil and then the bulbs can ripen eventually as you turn them they will just fall apart into the individual bulbs and then I select the best shaped ones and Just stand them up in a seed tray and put them in my small shed at the bottom of the garden ( cool & shady) the rest you eat/cook with or pickle. Come around november/december they will start to sprout and then I just gently push them into plantpak 15's ( 15 modules to a seed tray) in the potting gompost that comes out of my CHrysanthemum pots as it will be low in nitrogen but a fair nit of Phosphates & potash still on the compost which will help the roots form. They are then transfered to the cold greenhouse and left to over winter.
About feb time I give them a spray with warm water to wake the little buggers up and then plant out March/April.
Mine are Hative de Niort so you can plant before or around Christmas without worry. Some of them you can't plant till March or they will bolt ( run to seed) and then they don't store too good.
As to growing from seed. The only one I can think of is Ambition it's an F1 but that its good in this case as you want them all to maure on the same day and be uniform really I guess but you only get 1 per seed ( they don't split) and I'm told you can't save the "sets" for the following year
Hope this helps
take just prior to planting I think this year
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