I'm going to surprise the DGF this spring and plant 95 tulip bulbs

[backdoorchicken]

ok i'm done. i went with the chicken wire because i had extra already. i have planted them this time of year before in a different bed and they came up fine. so this time i planted them in the beds at the end of our driveway(which were the beds that got eaten before). i dug out about 1½ feet and laid down the wire. i then added a 3 inch layer of compost/soil mix. planted my 90(40 each side) bulbs and added another 3 inches or so of compost/soil mix. i then added daylily bulbs over that. topped all that with a little more soil and mulched it.

so now she will just think i mulched the beds and won't be expecting 90 beautiful tulips come spring.

wish me luck.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

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Oh, that it good! She isn't even expecting them! LOL

Good Luck! I hope they are the most beautiful tulips she has ever seen

 

[backdoorchicken]

i noticed they are starting to break through the soil this morning



SPRING IS HAPPENING!!!!!!

 

[FairfieldChicks]

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Congrats, I'm sure she will be super excited )

must post a pic when the bloom

 

[sfw2]

Our bulbs are coming up, too.

Spring!!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

That is so SWEET!!!!

 

[backdoorchicken]

only about 5 of them came up. i was robbed again.

 

[silkiechicken]

That sucks... did you dig in to see if the bulbs were eaten or rotted out?

Ours have all started to flower in the past few weeks.

 

[backdoorchicken]

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some gone. some half gone. def eaten from the bottom up.

like this poster only jaws is a vole and the chick is a tulip bulb.

 

[sourland]

Backdoor, I planted 75 tulip bulbs last autumn. The voles (meadow mice) ate all but 5. I poured Assault brand mouse killer down their little vole holes. I am finding dead voles all over my flower beds. I plan to routinely poison the little buggers. Well. if they didn't eat the tulips, the deer would have. Nothing eats daffodils-I think I'll stick with them in the future. Geo.