BULB PLANTING

Evening Star, Issue 19788, 11 February 1928, Page 19

BULB PLANTING

THINGS TO REMEMBER

You must never leave an air space beneath a bulb. That means planting with a trowel instead of, as usually is done, with a blunt-ended stick. 'Vita a trowel you can make a hole amply large enough to accommodate ' your bulb, and can “ sit ” it direct on the soil. When the hole is made with a dibber, as it is called, you have to push tho bulb into it, and can never tell whether it has gone all the way down, as it should, or lodged halfway. You must never pack tho soil hard in your planting operations. If you do the bulb’s roots cannot easily push down, with the result that tho bulb tends to rise to the surface. Quite often you see tulips lying on tho bed instead of in it. Rlanf in loos© son, and press the surface down lightly when planting is all finished —that is the rule. You must put in all your bulbs at an even depth’; otherwise you will have them coming up unevenly, and some, perhaps, not appearing at all. These are the regulation planting depths:— Small. Large.

Crocus ... 2in din Daffodil ... 4in 6ui Hyacinth ... ... 6in 7in Narcissus ... ... 4in 6in Scilla ... 14in Sin Snowdrop ... ... 2in din Tulip ... 4in 6m