Bulbs: I bought way too many bulbs, 1 by goshsmom

goshsmom wrote:
I was abt to brag that I'd gotten all my bulbs in (as of 6pm) and then ran into a couple bags of daffs & tulips that were hiding in the garage! I, too, ordered way too many bulbs & then spent DAYS thinking abt which ones would go where. I thought abt it while I,too, was having one root canal, being told I needed another, & finding out that I had a broken tooth, too! I hate to be paying off the endodontist when I want to be saving for the craft show the day after Thanksgiving :=( Yesterday my wonderful yard guy came & tilled three new beds. The soil is such heavy clay that it compacts right after you till it. So he tilled & then we scraped the soil off to the side---till again, scrape again. Till again, scrape again. Trip to HD to get more chicken wire, pea gravel, etc. Today, prepped the beds with gravel so the bulbs wouldn't rot until at least 20 minutes after planting. After all my hours of planning, I ended up with all three new beds being jumbles of tulips, daffs, & muscari, with alliums (is that the right plural?) & God only knows what else. Then added some compost, then newspaper & boxes on top, then leaves, soil, hair (to see if it really repels deer), then chicken wire, then logs & rocks to weigh down the chicken wire. All the while with this cold mist falling, shoes so mucked up I may just pitch them. Every joint in my body is screaming right now---- I want to get in the hot tub but I'm afraid I'd never make it out! BUT, at least most the bulbs are in, better protected than last year, AND the 6 bags of leaves that we shredded with the Flowtron leaf shredder one week ago were already starting to steam-- amazing! And I will have FLOWERS next spring! Yeehaw!

Picture of 3 deer survivors from last spring: