How to Pot Your Bulbs 
For Future Transplanting 
Often times the garden location in which you want your bulbs 
to bloom is filled with other blooming plants just when the bulbs 
should be planted. To overcome this you can pot the bulbs at 
the proper planting time and later move them to the garden at 
your convenience. Here’s how to do it: 
Take a 3x 3x 4 wooden plant band, 5” pot, or a quart-size can 
and fill it to within 34" of the top with a rich garden compost. Use 
one pint of bone meal to one bushel (8 gallons) of soil. Push bulb 
in firmly to depth illustrated. Then adda thin layer of sand. This 
will make it easier later to remove the mulch. 
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Place these containers on top of the ground in the coolest, 
most shaded spot in your garden and cover over with 6 to 8 
inches of peat moss, soil or leaf mold. Keep well watered. 


PEAT MOSS 
GROUND LEVEL 
After 12 to 14 weeks, the root system has been fully developed 
and has started to feed the flower, which by now is 4 to 5 inches 
high—breaking through the peat moss. When the very top leaves 
begin to curl back the time has come to remove the peat moss. 

PEAT MOSS 


GROUND LEVEL 
By the time the sunlight has turned these buds to normal green 
the plants are ready to be moved where you want them to bloom. 
If you like, you may bring some hyacinths or daffodils indoors in 
front of a sunny window where the heat of the house will force 
them into early bloom. When placing the container in the spot 
you have selected, sink it to a depth so that the level of the bed is 
approximately one inch over the container. . 
