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Hey Green Thumb - Did You Consider The Bulbs?

November 25th, 2009 | by |

After a long winter there is nothing more lovely than a spring garden with decorative garden decor (glass gazing balls are a great addition). If you want to get a spring garden really blooming you are going to have to do a few things first.

In the fall plant your bulbs and ground phlox first. You
should also put some bulb premium fertilizers into each hole as you plant the bulbs-and watch to
what depth the instructions say to plant the bulbs. It is also a good idea to plant the bulbs in groups of 5 or 10
scattered about so that that the other foliage will hide their greenery as the garden bulbs start to
wither. If you go about lazy-dazy style putting them out to and fro, they tend to make a pretty
landscape look haphazard and messy.

In the spring after your daffodils and tulips have all bloomed it is important to not cut
down their foliage. You might think its ugly, but pruning this foliage away will disturb our flower bulbs from
properly blooming in the years to come. If you will take the patience to let it yellow, it will likely pull out or cut off simpler
enough. In fact if it does not pull out of the ground easily then it is not ready to be cut
out or cut away. These left over leaves are generating food for next year’s blooms. Simply
ignore them until they are truly wilted and yellow.

It is also a good idea to put down some bulb fertilizer in the fall and spring over the areas where you have them planted. Doing this usually keeps your flower bulbs joyous from year-to-year. Daffodils are a good bulb choice as deer and squirrels seem fairly uninterested in them and
they slowly multiply year after year.

If you haven’t already noticed also, tulips can be a disappointment!

You could see that within a couple seasons the bulbs tend halt blooming. Plus, the squirrels love to steal the bulbs and even the deer eat them … they simply disappear.

Grape hyacinth and scilla are both lovely small purple flower bulbs, but they can spread to the
point of proving hinderance to the garden…and, as you can probably guess, you will want to keep this in your memory if bringing them in. Be sure to have some recycled glass gazing balls and other decorative garden decor too!

Spring gardens must be planned out and started in the fall…just another reason why planning ahead is a big part of gardening.