Planting Ranunculus

Since this is my second time growing ranunculus I have done a lot of reading up on how to presprout and what other people recommend as far as planting times and my growing zone, digging up and storing and just overall how to care for them. I really love this flower and was willing to do whatever I had to in order to enjoy these pretty blooms. 

Early fall of 2023, my experience in digging them up had to be the most time consuming task that Ive ever encountered with a single flower, mostly because I wasn’t ready for them to multiply like they did. 

I was excited for this, but since I decided to do this on a work night late, and didn’t finish until 11pm, it made the whole process seem like too much. I wasn’t  prepared for the amount of time I would need to wash them and dry them.

This spring Ive been looking forward to planting them again, but this time I don’t think that I will be digging them and storing them. There was one corm (pictured above) that I forgot to dig up in the fall and it is now blooming a beautiful shade of red. This made me realize that if this one corm made it through the cold winter here, that I could possibly leave them to overwinter in the ground and cover them with heavy mulch. Its worth a try and would save me a lot of time. 

I’m excited to think of that possibility and hope they are successful. The weather has been cold last couple weeks so I decided to plant all of my corms from the presprouts now. From the corms that I purchased last year they tripled in quantity and about half of them did not pass the presprouting test. I have no idea what colors that I have anymore as I lost track during the digging up process but this makes it a little more exciting and I am looking forward to more blooms very soon.