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My Breck's order arrived.  :D 3q3q3q!!!!  So now I have lots of things to plant.

Is anyone else planting fall bulbs for spring flowers?

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Date: 2023-10-15 01:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] moonhare
Not this year, but I’ve done so a few times past. Brecks is my go to.

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Date: 2023-10-15 01:31 am (UTC)
cyprinella: Rosemary sprigs (rosemary)
From: [personal profile] cyprinella
I've got about 600 bulbs coming for a semi-guerrilla gardening project. Based on last year, I'll get them around Halloween. I was hoping to find a tool that would work better than my pitchfork for planting them in sod, but everything to sized for like big hybrid tulips and I'm planting little species bulbs that are much smaller. So pitchfork it is again!

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Date: 2023-10-15 02:45 am (UTC)
cyprinella: Rosemary sprigs (rosemary)
From: [personal profile] cyprinella
Sadly, I've looked at all of those. Anything step in is too wide for my purposes since I'm looking at an inch diameter tops and the smallest is like 2.5". I can't use power tools in the location, and I'm not hand dibbling 600 bulbs one at a time. I'm debating getting a step on lawn aerator since that's about the perfect size and depth but I don't want to tuck all the soil cylinders back in. The fork at least I just lever up the sod around the holes, tuck in bulbs, and stomp it back down. The downsides of the fork is that it's not really meant for that sort of use and a) my foot slides off the rounded top of the tines and b) I broke it last year. Hoping the gorilla glue holds!

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Date: 2023-10-15 02:08 am (UTC)
liana: Teaberry plant in snow (Default)
From: [personal profile] liana
I wish. All I have time for right now is the garlic.

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Date: 2023-10-15 12:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] darkcedars
All family plants this fall!

I planted a very large amount of my great-grandmother's daffodils in the front yard (white with orange center and big plain yellow trumpets). Some starts of my grandmother's iris (reblooming maroon) and some hostas from my parents.

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Date: 2023-10-15 05:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] prettyarbitrary
I am trying! I have my bulbs and bare roots, but also an ear infection. So they're currently napping on the back porch till, hopefully, I can get them in the ground before frost.

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Date: 2023-10-16 04:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] spiralicious
Wonderful!

Not this year. Life just got too crazy.

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