Breck's Order

[ysabetwordsmith]

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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[moonhare]

Not this year, but I’ve done so a few times past. Brecks is my go to.

[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!

[liana]

I wish. All I have time for right now is the garlic.

Try this ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I've got about 600 bulbs coming for a semi-guerrilla gardening project. Based on last year, I'll get them around Halloween. <<

Whooee, you got me beat! :D

>>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!<<

Amazon has some things sized for planting smaller bulbs. Some are narrower tube types, and they have some dibble sticks too.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Bulb-Planters/zgbs/lawn-garden/3480681011

Re: Try this ...

[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!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've been gathering seeds from garlic chives. My pollinators love that stuff -- it attracts a lot of parasitic wasps.

[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.

[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.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is wonderful.

The ones I have are old, old. Some of the black raspberries came from the wild patch my grandparents had. So did the poppies. <3

[spiralicious]

Wonderful!

Not this year. Life just got too crazy.