Beginners questions
quartzstone
Posts: 2
Hello,
Can anyone advise me here, a few beginners questions 
1) I'm growing some Lupins from seed and I also bought 3 bareroot lupins for 99p. What is the advantage of the bareroot? will they do better this year?
2) Also I have a hanging basket from last summer, with a few fuchsia and geranium that have over wintered well. Do the plants need moving to a fresh basked with new compost or leave them in the basket and just keep feeding as usual?
Thanks!
Adam
Hello,
Can anyone advise me here, a few beginners questions 
1) I'm growing some Lupins from seed and I also bought 3 bareroot lupins for 99p. What is the advantage of the bareroot? will they do better this year?
2) Also I have a hanging basket from last summer, with a few fuchsia and geranium that have over wintered well. Do the plants need moving to a fresh basked with new compost or leave them in the basket and just keep feeding as usual?
Thanks!
Adam
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Hi Adam,
Most lupins grown from seed will not flower in the first year (a few newer varieties do). Bareroot plants are always a bit risky but if well planted and watered they may put on enough growth to flower this year.
Hanging basket--yes, it will need taking down, all the plants removing and fresh compost with timed release fertiliser and water retaining granules. Otherwise in such a small amount of compost the reserves will be exhausted. I would cut things back before replanting and watering in well. But it would be safer to leave this until mid April otherwise your plants may be more vulnerable to a late frost.
The other difference between seed grown and bareroot lupins is that you will probably know what colour your bareroot ones will be, whereas seed grown will be a nice (hopefully) surprise
Hi Cambridgerose12
, new in here?
I've been popping in every so often...joined a few years ago
But always happy to be welcomed anew!
Thank you for your advise, I'll re-plant my basket