When should I plant bulbs? It's so warm still

[BeverlyBrook]

Just that really. Live near London. It was 25 degrees at the weekend!
I should be planting in October, but should I wait a few more weeks?

Are bulbs affected by temperature or UV strength? Or a combination?

Thanks

Mine are all in now. Despite the heatwave it's due to drop in temperature at the weekend

You're fine to put them in now .

Wait to put in tulips - the soil needs to be too cold for the bugs that otherwise attack them.

Have put in the rest and hoped for the best.

Aha thanks all!

Fine for everything except tulips now. I've done the crocuses. I've got alliums, grape hyacinths and snow drops next then will get to the tulips last.

But i've also got 12k bulbs in the day job to deal with. I'm somewhat bulb-ed out already

I was waiting until after this rain to plant mine. I was going to do them last weekend, but ran out of time.

But... I opened my shed today and the bulbs I had grown in pots, stored over the summer and then bunged quickly in shed last weekend. Well a bold mouse was right there, nibbling them! If they're only mildly bitten, what are the chances that they will still grow? Bog standard red tulips mainly, that multiply in my garden. Also a few anemones.

Nb i do have new to plant in pots, but tend to plant last years pot bulbs into the garden the next year.

If they haven't nibbled right into the centre, should be ok. They haven't found the work ones yet (and we have some exceptionally bold mice to go with the giant slugs)
As for waiting til it's not raining, unmm, I'd never get it done- it's at weekends if I'm home and just crack on for a bit. It's more a question of whether I have any will and energy after 45 hours of work horticulturalisting

Thanks. I shall plant them and hope!

If I had 12k bulbs to plant, in the wet, on my heavy clay, I'd never get the mud off me.

Ever.

How are you getting in with your 12k bulbs @Harrysmummy246? I bought about 30 bulbs last week when I took my DM to a garden centre and she said "oh, you're making a lot of work for yourself there you know!"

Meh I had dug out some of my raised beds because there was some bind weed in them replanted my bulbs with some dalias & winter interest stuff & the bloody bulbs have all come up! 😕

We're over half way through them thanks for asking @ExplodingSmittens

So do people plant the bulbs into the soaking wet ground?

Just moved from a dry, chalky garden to a heavy clay one. Was planning to plant in late october but it has rained solidly, now the garden is a bog. Do I plant anyway? Won't they rot?

Without improving the soil @CatherinedeBourgh that situation isn't going to change. I can only suggest that you get on with it, but dig in some compost and or grit as you plant.

Ive only got a large balcony so have to put them in pots. Ive only just read that tulips are bad for cats and its put me off. Ive been planting them for years as well.

Clay here too and this spring I only had one lot come up out of about 5 clumps. I'm adding grit this year and a little sand under each bulb.

Thanks, I'll try some grit and sand. I have put loads of rotted manure on the soil, but even that is soaking wet. With the amount of rain we've had, and the clay underneath, even where I have decent soil there's loads of water.