Spring can't be that far away...

[majorcatfish]

this year 1st day of spring is march 20th... had to think about for a couple moments.. not to put a downer on this thread it's the day same our mother passed in 2011.
so with said... lets all make this the best year ever.........
have 2 months till then get your flower and veggies ready to plant.....

everyone here is part of my family....

 

[Smart Red]

March 20 is the day spring arrives or the first (full) day of spring? That refers to the calendar year spring. There is also a meteorologist first day of spring -- March 1. For me spring comes whenever the frost is gone and the Earth begins to send up new growth.

 

[Nyboy]

Hey Red on 2nd set of flowering paperwhites, in a couple of days will change out bulbs for 3rd set!!!!!!!!

 

[Smart Red]

What! Why haven't we seen your window sill in bloom? Where are the pics?

 

[digitS']

Good Heavens!

We have gained 33 minutes here since the solstice.

Annette's daylight time would be about the same. Want to check your own?

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

OMGosh, I have been SOOOO Frustrated. Usually, I buy bulbs in the Fall and don't get them all in. Last year, I didn't get ANY OF THEM in the ground. We had a heat wave a few days ago, so I planted the 35 bulbs that had been sitting by my back door since November. I put them next to the hyacinths that had popped up an inch and a half, and covered them up with any many inches of soil that I could dig out of my vegetable bed, previously tilled in the fall. Amazing that I could dig 4 inches, then hit frozen soil. I still need to covered them with some stall leavings from November, not as rich as today's stuff. Most of the bulbs were still firm, so it won't be a total loss.
I gathered all of the daffodil, tulip and crocus bulbs that I didn't plant, and I've been planting them in topsoil today, to force. THESE were left in the cold barn, in a dark rubber feed bowl, and every one of them had already begun to sprout, at least a little bit, so I'm feeling pretty good about them.
I have places to put them all. 3 crocus are now in a narrow terra cotta pot on the south facing kitchen window sill. 12 daffodils and 6 tulips were buried deep in my tree pot, the same one where my gardenia tree died in last month, plus 6 crocus. I thought I was pretty clever. I dug to place the large bulbs 8 inches deep, and then sunk table knifes in the potting soil before I covered them, so I would know where to plant the crocus and not put them right about the other buried bulbs.
I have a couple of hanging, plastic planters and those will go upstairs, one will be hanging by the window at work.
I had heard that daffodils will creep down if you bury them shallow. I believe that ALL of these bulbs do this. When I was digging last year I accidentally chopped a tulip bulb in two. I don't remember planting it, but it was fully 10 inches down in the soil, which I am SURE that I didn't do planting it.
Why so many bulbs? I had intended 2/3 of them for my DD's place. No problem. I'll wait until May, and then transplant them to a new location here and at their place. If I put in markers, we'll remember what color went where.

 

[so lucky]

I just got some daffodil bulbs planted last week. At least I remembered to put them in the fridge about 6 weeks ago, so maybe they got a good enough chill.

 

[Smart Red]

Maybe next year I can remember to pot up some bulbs for forcing.

 

[Smart Red]

Nyboy, I did give in and get an orchid from Home Depot. I now am an orchid owner. Another plant to kill, I suppose. I don't do well with indoor plants.

 

[digitS']

We've gained almost an hour and a half since the solstice!!!

Consistently, 3 minutes every day, at this time of year ... 20 days from now ... you know what that will mean?!

See what you miss by living south, you all!?

Steve
who got a frozen bag of soil into the greenhouse and some seed in containers after a sunny morning!