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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

When to Plant Spring Bulbs

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Bulbs often need to go through a cold period before they're able to grow successfully in spring...but when should you plant them? Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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something that I have traditionally undergrown in my garden would be any type of bulb-style flower.

0:20.0

I really haven't done a lot with those those mostly because a lot of them

0:25.0

need some sort of winter chilling process

0:27.0

before they bloom in the springtime

0:28.0

and I don't really have that where I grow.

0:30.0

However, for those of you that do grow in this manner or want to, let's talk about when

0:36.1

should you actually plant those bulb style plants for spring, right?

0:41.1

When do you actually do that?

0:42.3

So what is a bulb? A bulb is a plant that is

0:45.1

propagated via an underground storage vessel, contains all it needs to grow and flower. Inside that bulb,

0:52.1

you've got a growing bud, you have leaves on the outside.

0:55.2

It's usually some sort of scaly brown papery wrapper, somewhat similar to how an onion

1:00.6

might look. So let's talk about a bunch of different things as far as

1:04.9

when to plant it first. Well, most of the time you're going to be able to buy

1:10.3

them at the moment that they're ready to plant. So that's kind of a good rule of thumb is if you're able to buy them at the moment that they're ready to plant. So that's kind of a good

1:13.2

rule of thumb is if you're able to buy the bulbs in your region, chances are really good

1:17.8

that it's also a good time to plant them. You might want to put them right in the

1:21.8

ground, but there are a couple different things that you should check out before you do so to increase your success.

1:29.0

So you want nighttime temperatures to be roughly below 50 or so. So that's a pretty

1:36.2

important part because remember they have to go through a cold period to really

1:39.2

do well. I will say though that you can still have success if you plant when the soil is at least 40 degrees

1:47.0

Fahrenheit so you can skip the winter and plant in the spring if you want to or it's also possible to force those blooms indoors if you're growing

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