Well, I just got finished planting 155 flower bulbs...

[CarolynEC]

64 crocus

35 daffodil

40 tulip

10 anemone

6 day lily

Can't wait for springtime. Here's hoping the neighborhood chipmunks and gophers don't feast on all the bulbs before the sun rises tomorrow! :)

[Jade Fox]

1. Holy Moley!

It will all have been worth it next spring.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. I don't think they'll mess with the crocuses and daffs,

since they're poisonous, but your tulips and daylilies are up for grabs, I'd think. That's based on my knowledge of what deer eat -- the one local chipmunk just raids my bird feeders!

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. Wow! You're going to have a beautiful yard next spring!

I admire people who take the time to beautify their yards with flower beds, etc., they always look so nice. The only way I relate to mine is with "weapons of grass destruction" - a mower and weed eater!

[CarolynEC]

8. "Weapons of Grass Destruction"

LOL! :D

[CarolynEC]

4. Thanks, all.

It's the first time since I left home for college (which was, er, several years ago) that I've had a little patch of ground to plant in. Been a city-dweller all this time -- finally fled for the countryside this year. Kinda fun, getting my hands dirty. :)

[OneTwentyoNine]

5. The only problem we have is the damn wind....

Just about the time all the tulips are up and looking good here comes the seasonal spring winds and shreds them.

Probably need to plant more and have them closer together. BTW,if anyone thinks that bulbs from a place like Home Depot are the same as a place like Breck's you got another think a comin.

I bought some a few years back from HD. What a joke....thin,spindly looking and didn't last all that long. Learned my lesson...

David

[Alleycat]

6. WOW

They are going to look great in the spring. I do have a question, how and what did you use to dig the hole. My yard in PA is all gravel and stone. I've attempted to do bulbs but the tulips always get eaten by the squirrles since I've only tried to put them in my raised beds. In fact everytime I do a new bed I've given up on the digging and just have new soil trucked in and spread it on top of the existing ground. Any advice you can dish out would be appreciated.

[CarolynEC]

7. I'm not even CLOSE to being an expert on these things...

... but I did happen across a neat little bulb-digging tool at my local Agway. Here's a link to a PDF of their ad, showing the tool:

http://www.agway.com/04lsept_flyer/pdf/0904_AGW_LSept_4.pdf

I thought it worked very well, though I'm not sure how it would do in rocky soil.

My mother told me (AFTER I'd finished planting, of course!) that you can put chicken-wire over your bulbs when you plant them, to fend off the critters, then cover the wire with the last layer of dirt, peat moss or wood-chips. Maybe that would make raised beds do-able?

:)

[Astrochimp]

9. east way to plant crocus-

We did a couple of hundred in the front yard- "snow crocus", they will bloom before the grass needs mowed, and sometimes threw the snow.

Anyway, I found an easy way to plant them- use a battery drill with wood bit (spade bit- the flat ones)about 1". I just "drilled" a hole in the ground, dropped in the bulb, and filled it with dirt from a bag of top soil.


David