The Weekly Dirt with Jessica Damiano

The Weekly Dirt with Jessica Damiano

How to force bulbs -- it's easier than you think

🎃It's more like tricking them -- and the treat you'll get is wintertime blooms!

Oct 31, 2021
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flower plants on windowsill
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Hello, friends, ghouls and gobblins!

It’s still prime bulb-planting time here in the Northeast, but what you might not be hearing as much about is that it’s also bulb-forcing time pretty much everywhere.

Bulb forcing sounds like a lot of work, but it actually involves pulling a fast one over on those rounded underground storage s…

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