Lowes Garden Club - Fall 2007 Issue:
"Secrets to Bulb Success - Make the most of your blooms next spring by arming yourself with a little knowledge.
FROSTY MORNINGS - Bulbs can withstand light frosts. If temperatures drop below 29° F, foliage and buds will suffer. Cover flowers or, if the cold lingers several nights, cut them for bouquets.
STRAIGHT AND TALL - Keep daffodils from drooping by surrounding clumps with hoop supports. Create your own by snipping tomato cages apart with a pair of bolt cutters to form separate hoops.
TULIP PROTECTION - Deer love to munch on tulips. Protect buds with an organic animal repellent or a homemade garlic-red pepper spray (combine garlic cloves, pepper, and hot sauce in a food processor, and then mix with water).
FEEDING THEM - Fertilize tulips when leaves emerge and again after blooming. Feed all other bulbs after flowering. Scratch bulb fertilizer into the soil around the bulbs, and then water.
BOUQUET BLENDS - Don't mix cut daffodils and tulips in the same vase. (Cut daffodils exude a sap that kills tulips.)
DIVISION WISDOM - When naturalized bulbs, such as daffodils or hyacinths, fail to flower, examine the planting clump. If bulbs are crowded, mark the clump with a stake, and then dig and divide them in fall."
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Barbara Mulcahy
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