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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Flower Bulb Fun

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

There is a category of plant that we've barely ever grown. Have you ever grown this plant,

0:17.7

junk? I have not. Never. Never. Not in my... I tried once. And how'd that go? It didn't.

0:26.1

The plant we're talking about today are the category are bulbs. So flowering bulbs,

0:29.9

daffodils, tulips, these sorts of things. Technically we both have, but they were more

0:35.0

quarms because we grew dolias or tubers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So we grew dolias, which, you know,

0:40.8

actually doesn't count because they're not botanically the same at all, but like the

0:44.4

principles are semi-similar. Anyways, we're talking about bulbs today because pretty soon on

0:48.8

the YouTube channel, we're doing a bulbs 101 with our newest gardener here on the staff at Epic

0:55.0

Gardening, which if you're listening to the podcast, I'm just going to spoil it. I'll give you

0:58.0

a little teaser. And this is what you get for being a faithful Epic Gardening podcast listener.

1:02.6

Even though it has been a little bumpy this year and episodes haven't come out as frequently,

1:06.8

as we would have liked. We are remedying that. And the new creator here is Brianna from Blossom

1:12.2

and Branch Farms out in Colorado. She's a cut flower farmer and a grower. She'll grow for wedding.

1:18.4

She'll grow for bridal showers. She'll sell at the market. She just, she plants like 4,000 bulbs

1:23.8

every fall. Yeah, definitely respect something that neither of us are good at because like to be a good

1:27.9

flower farmer, you have to be a really good planner. Different game, different game completely. And

1:32.4

you also have to be extremely good at harvest windows. Yeah. You know, if I miss, if I miss it

1:36.6

tomato, it's like not that big a deal. But if you miss your tulips, you're like, okay, well,

1:40.4

I can't sell this anymore, right? So anyways, doing some bulbs this year, where do we get our bulbs from?

1:46.9

So I think we actually are getting our bulbs from the local nursery, right? Yeah. Yeah.

1:51.0

So the deal is with bulbs, like the reason why I personally haven't grown them is that we're just

1:55.4

not very cold here. And most bulbs, not all bulbs, but most bulbs, especially the ones that I've seen

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