Check out this guest article for gardening with bulbs, for the best time to plant bulbs… and why.
Fall Bulbs For Early spring Blooms
Autumn bulbs are, naturally, planted in the Autumn and flower in the spring. A lot of people believe that they need to be planted in the early spring, believing that the winter frosts can harm them. In fact nothing could be farther from the truth.
Numerous think that they must be planted inside the early spring, believing that the winter frosts can harm them. In truth absolutely nothing could be farther in the truth.
Fall bulbs require the cold of winter earth to prompt them to begin growing and form a healthy root system, and a newly planted bulb will remain dormant until the ground temperature reaches 5 – 10 Celsius (40 – 50F). When you have an early autumn frost and a mild winter, you can come across bulbs starting to peek above the ground in January rather than March, and if your winter is mild, your bulbs will grow, but the roots will not be strong. The bigger the bulb, the far more essential a frost for their root system. Read the rest of this entry
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