- About Bulbs
- Landscaping Tips
- Planting & Care of Bulbs
- How to Prepare Your Soil
- How to Fertilize Your Soil
- Best Location for Planting Bulbs
- How Deep to Plant Bulbs
- How to Plant Bulbs, Which End is Up?
- Spread
- How to Water Your Plants and Bulbs
- Bulb Care After Flowering
- How to Stake Your Flowers
- How to Use Mulching in Your Garden Beds
- After Blooming
- Digging and Storing Bulbs
- Breck's Planting Guides
- Tips for buying Bulbs & Perennials
- Planting & Growing Instructions
Fall is the prime time for planting of hardy spring flowering bulbs. Bulbs and perennials need plenty of water
and good drainage. If water has a tendency to stand in the planting area,
you'll want to break up hard sub-soil and put in a layer of drainage
material such as coarse gravel, broken stone or sifted cinders below your
surface soil.
Summer-blooming Dutch Bulbs and perennials are not fussy about soil — provided it is not too heavy and sticky. If soil is heavy, loosen it with lots of humus, sand, gypsum, etc. If very light, add moisture holders — humus, peat mold, etc. If you have a soil with a high clay content, it can be improved by adding compost, peat moss or some other source of organic material. The organic material should be worked in the top twelve inches of soil (eighteen inches is even better).
Summer-blooming Dutch Bulbs and perennials are not fussy about soil — provided it is not too heavy and sticky. If soil is heavy, loosen it with lots of humus, sand, gypsum, etc. If very light, add moisture holders — humus, peat mold, etc. If you have a soil with a high clay content, it can be improved by adding compost, peat moss or some other source of organic material. The organic material should be worked in the top twelve inches of soil (eighteen inches is even better).
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