Spring bulb Gift Too late to plant tulips bulbs? We live in the Chicago burbs....?
Got tulips bulbs in January as a gift from my sister who brought them back from her Netherlands trip. I've kept them in my crawlspace in the dark and was wondering what I can do to get them to bloom yet this spring.......or is it too late? The ground has thawed out so I think I can put them in the ground now at least (couldn't in January......) What can I do? Should I have stored them outside?
Plant them when the ground is thawed, so that they can start to establish a root system, ready to flower a little later. You could help them along with this, if you planted them in a pot, and left them somewhere dark and cool, such as in a shed. They could finally be planted in the garden, before or after flowering. Usually best planted in November time, so theyve lost a few weeks of root growth.
Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob
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Gift Ideas for friend's birthday, she's 52?
It's my friends birthday today and she's just lovely but has everything a girl could ask for. I'd like to get her something but am on a budget, was thinking a nice pot of flowering spring bulbs.
I've got some homemade sausage, chutney and hot chocolate mix as well but would like to add something else too.
What do you think?
Any ideas other than a flowering plant?
You could add some bath oils or shower gels some nice smelling body powder would be nice. Even a small gift certificate to her favorite store would be nice too.
Buy Garden bulbs Which spring bulbs are deer resistant?
I want to buy bulbs for my garden, but the deer always eat them. What bulbs can I plant that the deer won't eat?
Thanks for the comments and answers. I found a chart on http://www.deer-departed.com/rarely-damaged-bulbs.html that was a help also.
Daffodils are pretty deer resistant, so are alliums, fritillaria, arum italicum & belladonna.
Deer can be terrible, since even plants that are supposed to be deer resistant may still get eaten.
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Why are dads so insistant on planting bulbs in the garden?
My Dad is always buying gardening mags and spending half a day reading them and the other half planting them can anyone make any sence of this for me??
Which brand of crystal cat litter do you find works best. I bought the Fresh Step kind and it is terrible. It doesnt absorb the urine as much as I would prefer and my whole closet (its a big closet) smells like piss. Which brand of crystals worked the best for you. BTW I have 2 cats that use the same litterbox.
There was literally a puddle of cat urine in the corner of the box, and I had to rake it with the litter scoop to mix it into the rest of the litter.
If you have two cats, one litter pan with one bag of the crystal stuff won't work for you. The person who suggested "Yesterday's News" gave a good suggestion. Hands down, though, the bestest, best smelling cat litter of all is Feline Pine, which is made from sawdust formed into little pellets, and smells like a lumber yard. When it gets peed on, the pellets that got wet turn back to sawdust and settle to the bottom, so you always know what is "used".
My favorite litter, though, is still the white clay litter. Most people dump a whole bunch of it into their litter pan, but that is a waste. You put about 2-3 inchest of litter in the pan. At the end of the day or first thing in the morning, when you scoop the latest additions out, first, you scoop the poop and flush it away. Then you tilt the ltter pan to one side gently, but until all the loose litter shifts to one side. The stuff stuck to the bottom has the pee in it. You grab a non-slotted scoop (like a small dust pan), and scrape the pee litter onto it. It will come right up. Dump this into the garbage or flush it. Then take a spray bottle that you have filled with 1 part of Clorox chlorine bleach to 9 parts of water. Spray the now-exposed bottom of the pan where the pee litter was with this. Take a paper towel and wipe until the bottom of the litter pan is clean. Then give the exposed sides a spray and a wipe. Chlorine bleach neutralizes pee and poop.
Tilt your litter pan to the other side and repeat.
Your litter pan and litter are now completely clean, as though you just changed the whole thing.
Grab your bag of litter, and sprinkle on the top about the amount of litter you removed when you scooped and scraped.
The litter pan never, ever, ever stinks when you do this every day. I do it in the morning and evening, and you never smell anything except immediately after a major production. And white clay litter is very inexpensive.
Last winter, I cat sat two cats for a month. In an entire month, using this tilt-and-scrape-and-spray method, I used about 15 lb. of litter.
You can lay out big bucks for litter, and Feline Pine, which really is wonderfully fresh smelling, is a little pricey. Or you can tilt and scrape, and take a vacation on the savings.
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What's in the white crystal powder packet you get with cut flowers to keep them fresh?
The floral preservative provides flowers with water and food and contains a disinfectant to prevent bacteria from growing.
The key functions of a fresh flower food are:
- Provides food in the form of sugars to keep the flowers alive. Just like ourselves, flowers use carbohydrates as an energy source.
- Helps lower the pH, which keeps the water/food conducting system in flowers working at maximum efficiency.
The packet of powder that comes with fresh flowers is basically just sugar. There is no evidence that this powder keeps flowers any fresher. It is supposed to kept the bacteria count in the water low.
Also, I heard that instead of the florist floral life extender packet, an aspirin, (not ibuprofen), works just a well. Aspirin seems to lengthen the life of the flowers. Just be sure to snip a bit off the ends of the flowers each day. The stems seal themselves, reducing the water flow to the flowers.
Buy Daffodils bulbs I accidentally hacked into a daffodil bulb?
Okay, I have yet another bulb question! We bought our house last October. When it started warming up I was surprised to see that we have daffodils! I was just planting some hyacinth plants next to them and accidentally hacked into the daffodil bulb. It's huge, I didn't realize that it would be that big so I started digging and really chopped part of it up. I am so disgusted with myself! I know they are pretty hardy, could it possibly live?
P.S yes your daffodil bulb will live just put the earth back over the top of the bulb and compact -yours-
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Forcing Tulip and Daffodil Bulbs?
I bought bags of tulip and daffodil bulbs in the fall and never got them in the ground. I just looked at them in the bag and the tulips especially are putting out a green stem. Can I force them now in water or a pot indoors, or even plant them in the ground outside at this point? I live in the Pacific Northwest in a temperate climate.
If they're only JUST starting to grow it is not too late to plant them outside now but don't delay.If they're in the warm they'll grow fast and even a few days will see the shoots become too overgrown to plant out. If they're in the warm now put them in the area you will plant them and cover them over then plant them out as soon as you can.
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What's the Difference Between Annual Plants and Perennial Plants?
I'm starting my first garden and I'm a little clueless!
Annual plants are only for that season...and they die after the season...Perennials come back year after year. After their blooming season they die back to the ground and are dormant for the winter usually. Annuals are usually the most colorful and popular plants that you will see when looking for new plants...like in the summer petunias are the must have annual for color, in the winter pansies are the must have...You usually mix in the annuals and perennials when you plant your flower bed for depth, color, sizes, foilage, etc....When your annuals die back after their growing season, you can clean them out of the flower bed or you can cut them back and leave them to have richer soil. When your perennials die back in winter, wait until they have completely lost all color and look dead, then cut them back to the ground. You still must take care of them even though they are dormant..water them...but not as much as in the summer, they won't require that much b/c it's not so hot. Hope this helps!
