Re: When to plant fall bulbs?
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: When to plant fall bulbs?
- From: "* B* <m*@pldi.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:08:09 -0500
When does Mother Nature plant bulbs? Seems if it is good enough for her
should work for me.
M Brown
NW Oklahoma, USA
USDA Zone 6b, Sunset Zone 35
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: When to plant fall bulbs?
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 12:28 AM
>
> In a message dated 9/22/98 10:51:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> a4sberg@swbell.net writes:
>
> << Here in the Texas (zone 7/8), the local horticulturists have told me
not to
> plant bulbs until the soil temperature drops below 40F. For me, that's
> sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.>>
>
> Sounds ridiculous to me. When are they supposed to start growing their
roots?
> Here in Zone 6A Cincinnati we plant in October (or earlier in a pinch)
and
> I'm sure the soil temperature is well above 40F. But then we have
freezing
> winters to look forward to as early as November. Any Texans online to
support
> or refute?
>
> Bill Lee
>
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