|
|
Article: front door; A weekly look at ways to add beauty, utility and fun to your home or garden.(VARIETY)
- Article from:
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: KIM YEAGER, CONNIE NELSON; STAFF WRITERS
DO IT NOW
If you still have bags of bulbs sitting around, get to it and plant those bulbs now. Although it's possible to plant many bulbs right up until the ground freezes, your bulbs will do better -- and you'll enjoy planting more -- if you do it before it gets colder. Water well after planting (there's no need to feed) and mulch the bulb bed once it gets really, really cold. Which could be next week.
NEXT WEEK
A garden's beauty is always ephemeral. But when Jim Smith's flowers and foliage fade for the winter this year, it'll be for the last time. Next spring, the EPA will dig up his ...