I have hardly any bulbs in my garden @fire. Partly because I lose a lot in my very heavy soil if we have a very wet winter (and I am definitely praying for one of those this year...) but also because I stick spades and forks through the ones I do have with alarming regularity.
I imagine though that @ObsessedPlantswoman is referring to how difficult it would be to try to plant bulbs at the moment. Most of my 'soil' is rock hard and the thought of trying to excavate individual planting holes to the right depth gives me the shudders.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Interesting discussion! My soil doesn't go hard in dry weather, it pours through your fingers (and back into holes being dug) like the dry sand at the top of a beach.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Our local park is a tinder box. We are kind of waiting for it all to go up. Idiots bbq and set off fireworks regularly and there is broken glass everywhere. 😣
Ha, of course I like bulbs, it was just the thought of digging All the holes to plant them, in this rock hard Earth. Anyway hoping Jenny might lend me her pick axe...
I often plant my new bulbs into pots to grow on and then plant them in the ground in the spring when the existing bulbs are coming up, the herbaceous stuff is only just starting to grow, and I can see where the spaces are.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Partly because I lose a lot in my very heavy soil if we have a very wet winter (and I am definitely praying for one of those this year...) but also because I stick spades and forks through the ones I do have with alarming regularity.
I imagine though that @ObsessedPlantswoman is referring to how difficult it would be to try to plant bulbs at the moment. Most of my 'soil' is rock hard and the thought of trying to excavate individual planting holes to the right depth gives me the shudders.