I hope you are not one of those who were just too busy to get all their spring flowering bulbs planted. If you have some left and the ground is not frozen there is still time to get them in. If you live in the colder sections it will be well to mulch them with a few inches of leaves to give them a better chance to root before the ground freezes. Unfortunately, if you don’t use them this fall they will be worthless by spring.
Of course, any extras may be potted up now in a good garden loam and be forced into bloom later on. To give them time to root they should be well watered and put in a cold place for at least eight weeks. A cellar will be too warm, but a bulb cellar may be cold enough.
Many folks find it easier to put the pots on top of the ground, soak them thoroughly and cover them with moist sawdust or moist peat. If you try to use sand or soil you will never be able to chop them out later on. You will find this not only works for the larger bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths, but by putting quite a few in a pot you will get a tremendous thrill out of having crocus, grape hyacinths, snow drops and squills giving you a preview of spring in your living room or dining room. Unfortunately there are only a few bulbs like paper white narcissus that can be rooted and forced right in the warm living room.
Watering House Plants
A news column that I read recently said it was perfectly natural for tall house plants such as dieffenbachias and others to have only a certain number of leaves. That writer apparently never learned how to water. A friend of mine who has a four-foot dieffenbachia in a rather dry office was complaining that it lost a leaf as fast as it got one. I told him to try watering it a little bit every day. Now after several months the plant has twice as many leaves as it ever had before. This same mistake of trying to treat the average house plant like a desert plant is made by all too many people. Get into the habit of looking at your house plants every day. If they are even a little bit dry give them water, maybe just a little but enough to keep them moist at all times but never muddy.
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