Bulb Selection and Succession Planting

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Learn how to choose the right flower bulbs to grow, as well as how to plant them in a manner that gives you consistent blooms throughout the year. Connect With Peggy, Dan, and Summer: Peggy Anne Montgomery is a horticulturist and works with FlowerBulbs.com, Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at Chanticleer Gardens, and Summer Rayne Oakes of Homestead Brooklyn recently started a new project called Flock up in the Finger Lakes of New York. FlowerBulbs.com Flower Bulbs on Facebook Flower Bulbs on Instagram Chanticleer Gardens Dan Benarcik’s Website Homestead Brooklyn on Instagram Flock Finger Lakes on YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:16.4	We are doing the party edition this week.
0:18.8	We're talking about bulbs.
0:20.6	We have Peggy Ann, Dan, and Summer Rain Oaks on.
0:24.7	We entered them last episode.
0:26.2	You can check out all their links in the podcast description.
0:29.0	There's a lot going on.
0:30.0	We're talking about bulbs this week, something that I think you guys all know this thing.
0:33.3	I haven't done a whole lot in the world of bulbs.
0:35.8	I did just recently purchase a few, so I've dipped my toes in the very, it sounds like a
0:40.4	very wide pond of bulbs.
0:42.4	And I thought maybe Peggy, maybe we can start with you.
0:46.0	If someone's just getting into bulbs for the very first time, what's just like that basic
0:50.2	primer that they have to know?
0:51.6	How do they know what to get, how to deal with them?
0:55.3	I think number one, always when we're gardening, is to talk about what zone we're in.
1:00.6	Kevin, these bulbs that we're talking about for naturalizing and succession planting,
1:04.9	are really things for the northern tier for zones 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and maybe 8.
1:12.0	And you get a little lower than that.
1:13.9	You're going to have the opportunity to grow tropical things that we couldn't, but for
1:18.8	the sake of this conversation, we're talking about climates that have some kind of a winter
1:23.9	period.
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