When planting bulbs, Jimmy chucks the standard rules. Rather than planting each bulb individually five to six inches apart as the rules recommend, Jimmy digs a hole twice as deep as the bulb is high and just dumps in the entire bag of bulbs. He does point the bulbs sprout-end up, but his bulbs are tucked in tight, touching right up against each other. When does Jimmy usually plant spring bulbs? Even in Texas, bulbs are planted between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
This same planting procedure will also work for some of the minor bulbs like snowdrops, irises and anemones. And there are plenty of companion plants you can use to fill in the bed until the bulbs bloom, such as pansies, violas and snapdragons.
One final tip: If you’re storing bulbs in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator, take the fruit out. Fruit like apples and oranges emit a gas that can damage the bulb's flower.
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