The garden is surprisingly decorated with bulbous flowers, they throw buds at different times, delight with colorful paints, and also do not require special care. But what you need to know is how to handle planting material.
Bulb digging time
At one time, I studied a pile of magazines (there was no Internet yet), collected knowledge bit by bit. I learned a few rules for myself:
- it is necessary to dig up heat-loving bulbs (gladiolus, begonia), they need to rest at a constant temperature (+ 10 ... +14 ° C) and humidity (50-60%);
- bulb roots can be dug up immediately after foliage withers:
- children from single plants (tulips, lilies) need to be separated more often, bush crops (daffodils, crocuses) are often better not to disturb.
Today I will talk about bulbous flowers that are not afraid of frost, which need to be dug up in the summer and planted in the fall.
Tulips
Every year I dig out only large, varietal flowers. Others sit in the ground until the buds are chopped. For the rainy period of planting, I cover with cropped plastic bottles, I make umbrellas for the flowers.
I take varietal bulbs from the ground when the honeysuckle is ripe. This is a great landmark. I rarely look at the lunar calendar. Later, in mid-July, it is better not to touch the flowers, they tolerate our climate well. 
Tulips, Daffodils
Daffodils
False bulbs of daffodils often do not disturb. These flowers love to grow in dense clusters. Transplant them during the ripening period of strawberries.
In a container with water, pseudobulbs will keep fresh for up to a month, most importantly, prevent stagnation of water, change it more often.
Hyacinths
These flowers love loose soil, from which the bulb can be removed by hand, picking up the bottom with three fingers. I clean the planting material after two days of drying on the veranda, scatter what I dug up on old newspapers. I immediately separate the children, plant them in pots, and take them home for the winter.
Then I remove the leaves and roots with a knife (I pre-treat the blade with peroxide), exfoliate keratinized scales. I store the prepared planting material until the autumn in the garden house - I clean it in a container with sand, periodically moisten it. 
Lilies, Hyacinths
Lilies
The bulbs of these delicate plants quickly dry out. In the open air I store them no more than 3-4 days. If there is time, I transplant immediately after removal of the under-arms - small young cones.
Asian hybrids and aircraft multiply too much, I dig them up every year, remove all the undercats. Oriental, tubular, OT hybrids, Martagon can sit in one place for up to seven years. Young shoots do not interfere with maternal onions. Recommended transplant dates: mid-August - first half of September.
I do not advise replanting all the lilies at once, there will be confusion with the children. In the literature, the timing of digging up hybrids is shared, I think, precisely for this purpose.
Crocuses
I do not touch the corms until the planting is thickened or someone asks to dig out several plants. I have several varieties, all behave about the same. I divide later varieties only in spring, the rest in mid-summer.
When you want to get large buds, the bulbs can be kept in wet peat in the cellar or vegetable compartment of the refrigerator for up to two months. In this case, the plant is dug up immediately after flowering, they are moved to a new place in late autumn.
Grouse imperial
It is a tropical culture. To book the bud, the bulb needs to be warmed up well. To make the flower happy every year, they dig it out after the petals fall. Recommended temperature is +30 ° C. I take the bulbs home, put them in a bowl of wet peat, put it on the windowsill of the window facing east, cover it with a light cloth or gauze in 4 layers. Wet a couple of times a week to weave from a spray bottle.
One year I did not dig the row in time, I stretched it until the strawberries ripened. As a result, many bulbs had to be thrown out, they rotted. Toward the end of storage, thin young roots appear on the bulbs. This is a landing signal. The soil must first be shed with a warm solution of manganese in order to scare off insects and kill spores of fungi. 
Crocus, Hazel Grouse, Muscari
Small onions
Kandyk, Scylls, and other small-bloomed flowers grow in one place for up to five years. Then it is desirable to divide them so that they do not interfere with each other. Muscari, white flowers, snowdrops after transplantation become larger. I dig up small onions when they start to dry the leaves.
In hot summer it happens in August. When it rains frequently, the leaves remain fresh until September. Bulbs after drying in the shade for 3-4 days, place in a new place. If there is no time to transplant flowers, I put them in a shoe box, and I fall asleep with slightly moist peat or sand - which is at hand. I do not touch young plantings until seven years old, if I cut the leaves every year, new sprouts do not develop, large buds are laid for next spring.
Summer storage
Dug flower bulbs are prone to fungal diseases, they dry out, become forage for voles. I recommend to lay them out on old newspapers, hold them for 2-3 hours in the sun, then sort them by grades, size. A trifle can immediately be put in a box with the earth, let them gain strength until next spring.
I dry a large planting material for a month. It is convenient to use old tights or mesh bags. I hang them under the stairs on the veranda. It is necessary to find a place so that there is no direct sun, rain does not get in, air does not stagnate.
