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Posted: Feb/23/2006 11:39 PM PST
Just out of curiousity, how does everyone keep track of the bulbs you have to take up in the fall? |
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Posted: Feb/23/2006 11:49 PM PST
My gosh they are everywhere...in spare room behind better halfs shop on a shelf...In boxes in my workout room stacked in the corner and in barrels there are about 30plus bananna trees... in boxes in the kitchen floor...I have been in the middle of potting some up for planters... Peggy |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 1:41 AM PST
Actually I meant when you have them out in the garden, or do you all keep them in pots through the summer? |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 1:48 AM PST
Kozykitten, i used to buy bulb bags. they were plastic mesh bags that i placed the bulbs in before planting. they had plastic tags that were to be left poking out of the ground so you could spot them and easily find and pull up your tender bulbs. the plants grew thru the mesh with no problems. i can't remember where i got them but i'm sure i ordered them from a catalog. |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 2:08 AM PST
Kozykitten..I have all of mine marked with labels that i made for boxes, bags, barrels I put them in... I have put very few in pots before but thought I would this year.. Peggy |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 3:52 AM PST
Kozy-- I took some of mine up (a few dahlia & calla lilies) just because I had just planted them a little bit earlier--but for the most part I have them everywhere!!--No way that I could remember where mine are all at--but I plan this year to mark everything as it comes up so that when I go to digging for the annuals and perennials I will know where they are-- Last yr., chances were if I got something to plant I would eye a place to put it and sure enough I would have already eyed that place before---a place to put a bulb, tuber, etc.--It happened to me all summer so I am definitely going to have to come up with a half-organized way to do it differently this year--I love the mesh bag thing that was mentioned--that would be great for me--I am going to try labeling little plastic things that my neighbor gave me and sticking it in the ground-- Even today I went to dig a spot for some half sprouted, neglected crocus bulbs and low and behold I hit a spot that I had planted tiger lily seeds last yr.--they had little green things on them!!--I was sad that I had hit the spot but also very excited that I got to see they were growing!! 
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 4:01 AM PST
LOL, that is what I am afraid of happening to me luckynunn. I am trying to figure out the best way to plant and be able to dig them back up without a)leaving 1/2 of them in the ground to die overwinter or b)digging up some of the ones that were suppose to stay in the ground over the winter. I don't have much in the way of flower gardens yet, but I am getting more and more going LOL. Last year the only thing I planted that had to be dug up was a elephant ear, but I plan on planting alot more things this year that will have to be dug up. I dont think a diagram of each flowerbed will help since it doesnt tell you exactly where to dig. I really like the mesh idea and the tags would work to, but I am afraid on my 3 year old pulling the tags out LOL. It will be hard enough keeping her from picking the flowers clean of blooms. |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 4:56 AM PST
I really have no idea which ones that you have to dig up and those that you can leave--my neighbor gave me some caladium bulbs and I forgot to dig them up--they probably died--like I said, she left her calas and dahlias and I dug mine up--Its all based on your zone I believe but with me being in the 'in between' area of Tennessee it gets confusing--some will say to dig this and that up and others will say "I leave all mine in the ground and they come back every year"-- seems the more I read and ask the more I get confused--so many different views and opinions--but I have learned alot this year and will probably just learn from experience more than anything-- I sure have learned alot from this website!--more than I could have ever imagined-- |
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Posted: Feb/24/2006 12:53 PM PST
Thanks for the idea of making the labels out of the blinds. LOL, I have two destroyed blinds that haven't been taken down yet, we bought the replacement but hubby works so much he just hasnt had time. Crazy little Quaker Parrot I had chewed on them since his cage was right up against the window. Maybe if I do them just right (how much is in the ground vs how much is above the ground) she wont pull them up. I dont want them to stick up much anyway. Maybe if I make a diagram of the garden and use these also it might work, then if one gets pushed into the ground or covered by something then I have a general idea of where to look LOL. |
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Posted: Apr/17/2006 5:02 PM PST
Thanks again for the reusing blinds idea Ron. I applied that when I planted seeds in my little greenhouse things too. That way I could remember exactly where I started and stopped with each kind of thing as well as where each one is hehe. |
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