I am Steven or the leaves may be falling all around me but today we're going to
be planting bulbs for next spring so what I'm going to show you is a variety
of bulbs that you can plant there's about you know there's a few dozen
varieties of common bulbs and then hundreds and hundreds of hybrids of
those types of bulbs you can kind of think of them as two groups of these
fall planted spring blooming bulbs the larger bulbs like tulips are these
beautiful orange ones the highest scents are the large purple ones one of the
most diverse types of bulbs you can grow our nurses SACEUR daffodils you when you
look at these large bulbs you can see that they have a stem end and then they
have a root end that tells you which end goes down the roots go down the stem
goes up for obvious reasons then you also have a bunch of smaller bulbs like
tiny little grape hyacinths or squirrels or glory of the snow or these beautiful
crocus they also can you can almost always tell they have a root end and a
stem in as well these are a little less particular when you're planting them
about which at which end is up you can kind of have them sideways and they'll
still find their way so they're a little less particular one other bulb that you
might want to investigate is called anemones they're called wind flowers and
they come in beautiful blues whites and pinks these types of bulbs are even
stranger they don't seem to have a top or a bottom so we plant them sideways
and also give them a little soak overnight so they plump up that will
help them a lot all of these flowers will be beautiful anywhere from some of
them emerge right when it's snowing and some of them will come up when it's
starting to warm up and you'll be wearing shorts so you can plant bulbs in
a wide variety of places you can plant them in a container you can plant them
in flower beds you can plant them in the lawn today we're going to be showing you
how to plant them amongst perennials that are already well established
that'll show you how to integrate bulbs into an already established bed this
one's slightly raised which is also good for bulbs they like the drainage I'm
gonna start with some of the daffodils so these large brown ones as I said
before the roots go on the end and it's really pretty easy you can use your
trowel a garden trowel you can use your shovel if you're planning a lot of bulbs
sometimes what I do is I dig big holes with the shovel and put the dirt on the
side and then come in and put all the bulbs and
then fill them all in but today what we're going to do is just be showing how
to plant the bulbs right here in the bed now planting dips are usually about six
to eight inches sometimes you know three times the height of the bulb and you
don't want the bulbs to touch really you want to kind of place them in there so
that they have enough room to be separated but also look good as a unit I
don't like the line the bulbs up at all so that looks too formal using them in
odd numbers and smaller groups is great while I have these daffodils here you
can also put in some other bulbs like maybe grape hyacinths off to the side
that way you're getting two blooms in one digging hole here and those can just
be kind of interspersed and then you can fill in with a little bit of soil and
then add a smaller bulb on top and there really aren't picky at all there you can
be pretty haphazard with it there's no exact science to it loosen the soil a
little bit this is really good soil that they'll grow happily in it looks like
it's well drained so all I do then is just take my bulbs and pick out the root
end and sometimes you can even just throw them in and see where they land
kind of keep them I try to keep them in groups if you intersperse every single
bulb they look a little odd so what I do is just kind of put them in different
groups and you would when you're doing this you might do more you might do
fifteen of longtime twenty-five of another what everyone always says with
bulbs is you really can't order too many because the more bulbs you have the
better when you're ordering bulbs always order as many as you think you can
afford because they you need a lot to make a big display what's good about a
lot of the smaller bulbs and also the daffodils is they'll come back where
lively every year if they're happy and they'll increase especially daffodils if
they're in a good spot they'll just keep increasing over the years so once you
plant them you'll have them for years to in years past you would use bulb
fertilizer in the hole these days they say not to do that that the bulbs are
really ready to go you can fertilize them later if you want them to come back
like daffodils returned we're lively every year and they like fertilizer when
you're also considering where to plant your bulbs especially in a flower bed
think about the fact that once the bulbs come up next year they're going to have
this foliage that needs to stay up for a while it won't be at that attractive
after a few weeks so it's good to plant them among other perennials that are
going to come up early and cover that area so that it looks filled in so it's
good to plant them next to hostas or ferns even hellebores which are
evergreen in many places those are all good plants to surround your bulbs with
because that way when they're when their leaves are starting to yellow there'll
be other green plants around them next spring once you have them all planted
and everything has come up and it's beautiful all you really have to do is
water and as I said you can give them a general dose of fertilizer like you
would your normal perennials when everybody's growing and happy
that'll help some of the perennial bulbs like narcissus and daffodils come back
stronger next year so the best thing about bulbs is that with a little
planning you can kind of pay now and play later they're the ultimate forget
about it kind of plant they're in the ground they're there until the spring
and you're gonna be so happy when they come up next spring and reward you with
all those beautiful flowers thanks so much for watching the dirt be sure to
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