Garden
Monday, April 18, 2011 by Amy
So, like I already blogged, we planted the tulip bulbs yesterday. I forgot that I snapped a few pictures, and I feel like I haven't posted pics in a while. We bought these bulbs last fall, and I never got around to planting them then. I mean, who wants to do garden work in the fall? Plus, I started clearing a spot for a garden bed in the fall and almost immediately squished a white grub with my hand and that made me totally squick out, so I stopped. I can totally admit my squeamishness. Anyway, I asked around and it turns out that you can plant fall bulbs in the spring, they just need to have a period of cold (achieved by leaving them in the mud room all fall/winter) and generally take a little longer to bloom. The downside is that I had them in plastic bags, so they got moist and a few of them were moldy. Quite a few had already sprouted in the bag, so I guess that's a good sign? Right? Hopefully at least a few come up so the girls will be happy. I've also heard that in order to have tulips come back year after year, you need to cut off the blooms so that the plants conserve energy by not producing seeds. Win-win: the girls get to cut flowers and I don't have to re-plant bulbs. Sweet.
Followed by a game of camera-tag:
