About Long Island Gardener Expertise Growing Tulips? Dahlias? Daffodils? Gladiolus? It doesn't get easier than bulbs and tubers. Once in a while, something goes wrong: The dreaded Narcissus Bulb Fly, which resembles a honeybee. Mosaic virus, which can ignite a field of tulips in a single season. Nematodes, lurking underground. Here on the North Shore of Long Island, the garden is full of surprises. If you live in the Northeast/Atlantic Coast, I can help you pick the right bulb for every season, indoors and out, and help you fertilize, bloom and harvest for home or work. How: I have degrees in related fields, but my best understanding is all learned from trial and error. For most of my 53 years I have been gardening somewhere. No matter what the problem, I've learned the best answers are always Organic -- Earth friendly, less expensive, healthier for people and pets, easier and cleaner than toxic liquids and powders that big chemical companies sell so smoothly.
Experience Besides degrees in related fields, and a few favorite horticultural societies, I work as a docent at our local botanical gardens -- but it's the years of work in the garden that's the real test.
Question we have a garden with plenty of bulbs in it...
But we want to make this space a vegie garden rather than a flower bed.. we have unearhted a great number of bulbs and wonder the best method of diposiing of them........
Answer Bring them to my house. Alternately, you can plant them down at the local school; perhaps a kindergarten teacher will turn it into a botany class. Or they'd look great down at the train station. Or the high school. Or your local parks department.
My favorite solution: It's almost Hlloween. Give these out as treats with the Candy (place in a plastic bag w/ planting instructions so they have a clue what they're supposed to do, you'd be surprised how little people know about these; you can call them a 'surprise bulb' so you don't have to tell them if they have Daffodils or Tulips or Scilla etc). I give Balloons out at our house. The little kids love them and they don't give anyone a stomach ache.
But bring them over to my house first. Thanks for writing,
