Spring Bulbs: Planting in the Fall
The spring gardening season does not last long, and before you know it, summer is fast approaching. Now is a good time for planning your fall garden. What types of seeds can you plant in the fall for spring flowers next year? Can you start plants in the fall that will produce in the spring months? You can! Plant for your spring gardens in the fall, planting bulbs that will bring flowers as the weather warms once again.

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006

Planting bulbs in the fall months will bring flowers in April and May. The best time to plant bulbs is after the temperatures fall back to about sixty degrees. Bulbs that are planted in the fall will form roots and stabilize themselves before winter dormancy. Often the planting of bulbs in the fall months is not done until at least October.

Towards the end of summer, you can find bulbs available in just about any gardening center. Planning your spring gardens, the colors, the types, and the height of your flowers can be easily done during the summer months while you are working in your gardens.

Some of the most common types of spring flower bulbs that you plant in the fall are the crocus, snowdrop, daffodil, tulip and hyacinth. Be sure that when you are buying your flower bulbs that you purchase ones that are firm. Bulbs that are soft or gushy are rotten and will not produce bulbs.

Where are the best places in your gardens to plant spring bulbs? Where the landscape is going to get at least six to eight hours of warm sunlight a day is where. A soft soil that you have cultivated and worked peat moss into will be a great environment for bulbs to be planted.

Often you will find that small critters will try to eat the bulbs that you plant. If you really are having a hard time with rodents eating your bulbs, you should avoid using bone meal. Bone meal attracts them to the gardens. You can plant your bulbs in any manner that you like, you can put them in rows or scattered through your gardens. You can create patterns or patches of flowers.