Planting Lots of Daffodils & Tulips in the Cut Flower Garden! ✂️
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00:00 here in a moment. Here's where they're going. I'm thinking we're going to have enough bulbs
00:04 to fill up the first four rows in this quadrant right here. And if we swing to the left you
00:10 can see where our driveway is. So as we're driving in and out we'll be able to enjoy
00:15 all this beautiful early color. I don't recall if we've ever planted bulbs out here, like
00:20 spring flowering bulbs, for cutting. So I'm very excited about this. We're going to be
00:24 treating these of course as annuals. We'll just be pulling them up bulb and all when
00:29 we get ready to pick them to use them in arrangements and things like that. Bethany is on her way
00:34 out here. We're going to pull this status. I completely forgot that this was out here.
00:38 Here she comes. Each one of the rows are 60 feet long and then I'm thinking we can do
00:42 four rows of bulbs per run. So essentially 240 feet of flowers per single row. So we're
00:51 going to go ahead and get this status removed really quick and then we'll run through all
00:55 the bulb varieties.
01:02 That's better. You're talking to the camera. I'm going to go ahead and put this in the
01:31 pot. That's better. We were talking, I think it took us just a little over five minutes
01:34 to get that done. Status is so easy to pull up thankfully. Now Erin and I last night were
01:38 discussing how we should get these planted. Like what would be the quickest, most efficient
01:43 way to plant them? And you might think that excavating, like digging out the whole row,
01:48 like the trench method would be the easiest. But in my experience, the trench method is
01:52 the worst. It's the most amount of work. So we're not going to do it that way. And then
01:56 I thought, well, what if we just lined up all the bulbs right on top of the soil surface?
02:00 We've got some compost out there on the dirt lands. What if we brought compost over and
02:04 just buried them six inches, like did a kind of a mounded raised bed sort of situation
02:09 over the bulbs. That way we didn't have to dig at all. I don't know if that would be
02:13 good because they would be up out of the soil, like the native soil. I don't know if they'd
02:18 get enough insulation. They'd probably be fine. So we're going to be using augers, which
02:22 do make pretty quick work of things. I've got two different sizes here. We've got a
02:26 two inch, which I think is going to be sufficient for most of our tulips. And then we've got
02:30 a three inch right here, which we'll probably need to use for our daffodils. Now, both of
02:35 these are the Laura edition augers. They're made by Power Planter. The difference is the
02:39 traditional power planters have a flighting, which is this piece right here, the metal
02:43 twisty piece. The flighting goes way further up the length of this auger. And I just found
02:50 that that was unnecessary for me. This digs every bit as deep of a hole and it's a lot
02:54 lighter weight. So when you're digging this many holes and you're moving this thing around
03:00 that many times, that amount of weight adds up throughout the day. So this takes a little
03:04 bit of pressure off of my body. And they are 36 inches tall, so I don't have to bend over
03:10 when I'm doing it. I can just aug all the holes. We can put our fertilizer down, put
03:15 the bulbs in. And the only time I actually have to get down on my knees is when I am
03:19 making sure the bulbs are facing upright and then covering over them with soil. It's a
03:23 pretty slick system and Erin's going to help me too. A couple other things, the drill that
03:28 we use, this is a DeWalt 20 volt. 18 volt is like the lowest I would go with a drill.
03:35 To be used with an auger, you want to make sure you have plenty of power. And then I've
03:38 got a bunch of bulb tone right here, which I think what I'm going to do with that is
03:41 I'm going to go along right now before we even start digging holes. And I'm just going
03:45 to top dress the soil with the bulb tone. When we dig, when we aug the holes, that'll
03:49 just churn it right into the soil. And I think that'll be perfect. Okay, so now I'm going
03:53 to run through all the different varieties we have to pop out here. Now I did go over
03:57 all of these when we went over our bulb order earlier this year, sometime during the summer,
04:02 but we'll just do it again. So in the daffodil row, maybe we can pop some pictures up. Daffodil
04:08 row, we have Bella Astrea's, Accent, Cassata, Del Nassau, Flower Parade, Frosty Snow, Mount
04:15 Hood, Precocious, Queen's Day, Tompoose, and Topsy Turvy. It should be a really beautiful
04:23 mix. Now all of these are from Colorblends, daffodils and tulips. Then for our tulip rows,
04:29 we're going to have three different kind of themes. One row will be lily flower tulips.
04:35 One row will be double tulips. And then one row will be best tulips. They have a series
04:39 on Colorblends like best purple, best red, best white, best yellow. And we're going to
04:43 color block them that way and do a whole row. And they're just like classic big tulip flowers.
04:48 So the best row, we have best purple, pink, yellow, red, white, and red, yellow. In the
04:54 double row, we're going to have Averons, Akebono, Morris Gudunov, Mount Tacoma, Wedding Gift,
05:02 Fanola, and Rosy Diamond. In the lily flower row, we're going to have Yume Nomurasaki,
05:09 Virashik, Queen Rainia, Purple Heart, Marilyn, Liva, Inimitable, Blushing Lady, and Anatolia.
05:25 It's going to be pretty. Now we are going to be digging our holes roughly six inches
05:28 deep. You usually want to space them out. I don't even know what the tag says. It usually
05:33 tells you. Four inches apart. And since we are growing these out here in a way that we're
05:38 not going to keep them out here, we're going to probably plant them a little bit closer
05:42 than that. So first things first, I'm going to apply the bulb tone down all these rows
05:45 and then we'll just start in. First row will be daffodils.
06:10 There should be... Oh, there's a lot of them. I'm going to have to get rid of them. I'm
06:38 going to have to get rid of them. Okay, Aaron is out here. We've got the daffodils at least
06:46 all lined out, kind of separated here. And I made tags. And I'm just reusing tags from
06:52 our Dahlia patch so that we can tell when one variety ends and the other one starts.
06:58 Now I did some test digging. You want these pretty close together. Well, I think to be
07:03 effective, don't you think? I agree. I think that they kind of need to be close. The one
07:07 downside of an auger when you're wanting things to be very close together, and you have to
07:11 kind of keep the holes open so that you can see, you know, like you can see the trajectory
07:16 you're going. You can't just dig a hole and then plant one bulb and then dig your next
07:20 hole. So what happens is you've got all these holes next to each other. Augers tend to,
07:23 you know, throw soil around a little bit. So they tend to backfill the hole right next
07:28 to it. So you have to kind of like dig it out again. So I think what we're going to
07:32 do is we're going to switch gears and we're going to go with the mounding method. Now
07:35 this is going to be an experiment on kind of a large scale. So what I'm going to do,
07:41 I'm going to go to the barn. I'm going to get some kind of a hoe and I'm going to hoe
07:45 a little bit of a trench, just enough to where we can nest the bulb a little bit down into
07:50 the native soil. So when we come along with our compost and pour it over the top, hopefully
07:54 they won't tip. They'll stay upright. I don't know. I think this will be an interesting
07:58 method because if it works... Do we have enough compost? Yes. Okay. I think. Okay. So if this
08:05 works, which I'm sure it will, uh, aren't, can we do it every year? Is it going to raise
08:10 the soil too much? It might. I mean, if we just till, can we till the whole thing in
08:16 after the, the show, the spring show? Like spread it out? Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. Absolutely.
08:22 And I think naturally too, when we pull the bulbs out, like I said, I think it's going
08:25 to remove some of the soil. I think I mentioned that earlier and we'll, some of it will settle
08:30 and then we'll plant, you know, new crops into the same relative area. And every time
08:34 you move crops, I think it removes more soil. So I think the more we add in here, especially
08:39 if it's good compost, I'd be great with just spreading it out, you know, in this area.
08:44 I'm all for it. I think this is going to work better. You know, every time I've ever seen
08:47 anybody plant in rows, I mean, they practically have the bulbs touching. Right. And in a flower
08:52 bed situation, I think the auger makes more sense because you can separate them a little
08:57 more and let them kind of naturalize. But in a, in a row, I don't know that the auger
09:02 makes as much sense. But a trench method, like digging it out, that's how they get them
09:05 so close. That's a tremendous amount of work. Yeah. If, yeah. I need some type of implement
09:13 for the tractor. Yes. I would be down with that. And a dahlia digger. A potato digger.
09:18 Yeah. Yes. Let's do it. Let's do it.
09:20 I'll find one.
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09:51 All right, guys, we are two varieties in. I just wanted to show you how it's going so
09:56 far. If this works, this is going to be amazing. You can see right here where the last daffodil
10:02 bulbs ended. The little trenches are working perfectly. It gets them at least, you know,
10:06 an inch, inch and a half down in the soil already. I kind of went along and just nested
10:10 them in just with the native soil. And then we're going in with four or five inches of
10:14 the compost. So other than looking a little bit like a cemetery out here with the mounded
10:19 up soil, I don't think it will look so much like that once we have the four rows done.
10:24 I think it's going to be awesome. Plus all those awesome nutrients being added to the
10:28 garden. I think that's just great. Now I'm spacing these about three inches apart. After
10:32 I got the first variety done, I stepped it off and then kind of did some math and figured
10:36 out how I could fit all of these varieties. We have 75 of each one of them. 11 varieties
10:41 of each 75 flowers. So 825 daffodils, I think will fit perfectly in that first row. Anyway,
10:48 we're just going to carry on doing the same thing. Initially, when we came out here, I
10:51 thought, oh, we might be spilling over into tomorrow. This project might take a little
10:55 bit longer because we didn't start it until a little bit later in the day. I think we
10:59 might be able to get it done using this method a little bit quicker.
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12:18 - All right guys, we did not finish completely,
12:38 but we got three quarters of it done
12:39 and I'm really happy with that.
12:41 I think it's gonna be gorgeous.
12:43 Now this method of planting has not been tested,
12:46 so don't try it until you see if it works well for us.
12:49 And oh my gosh, that first row looked so funny
12:51 when we very first had all that big mound of soil.
12:54 And then it looks less funny and more on purpose
12:56 when you've got multiple rows.
12:58 And then of course, you know,
12:59 tomorrow I'll finish up the last row there.
13:01 And wouldn't it be gorgeous to deck this whole section out
13:05 with bulbs?
13:06 I don't have enough bulbs to do that this year,
13:08 but wouldn't that be pretty?
13:09 The best part about planting tulips and daffodils in here
13:13 is that we do plant a lot of bulbs every single fall.
13:16 And we plant them out in the flower beds.
13:18 And I always think, well, we're planting so many out here
13:20 that I can cut them and I'm not gonna feel bad about it,
13:23 but I still do.
13:23 I still feel bad about cutting blooms in our flower beds
13:26 because they look so beautiful out there.
13:28 And they add so much to the spring landscape
13:31 that I like to enjoy them outside.
13:32 They last longer outside.
13:34 But in this case, we get to cut them to our heart's content
13:37 because that's what they're meant for.
13:39 And we don't have to wait for the foliage to die back
13:42 because we're treating these as cut flowers annuals
13:45 rather than trying to keep them, you know,
13:47 from year to year.
13:48 And tulips, which is the majority of what we're planting,
13:50 aren't as great at coming back.
13:52 They don't naturalize like daffodils do.
13:54 The daffodils, we could dig those out
13:56 and then all of these bulbs may go to a new home
13:59 when we're ready to do something else in here.
14:01 They likely will.
14:02 But the daffodils, we could pop out
14:04 into areas of our landscape and they naturalize beautifully.
14:07 And I do think we got sufficient soil
14:09 on top of these bulbs.
14:10 I mean, there's a pretty good layer going on there.
14:13 I don't know if you can see that's at least six inches.
14:15 I thought, you know, if I notice
14:17 if we get a lot of rain or something
14:19 and it's making some of the soil wash off,
14:22 I can come out here with a piece of, you know,
14:25 like that white harvest guard material
14:27 and I can just tack it down
14:29 and just protect these little mounds of soil.
14:31 And that would hold a little bit more heat in as well.
14:33 So that is an option.
14:34 Oh, oh my gosh, you scared me, Russell.
14:36 My goodness, you came out of nowhere.
14:38 And the other nice thing is that we have now
14:40 a bunch of land and sea compost,
14:41 which that's what we have it for anyways,
14:43 to use it out here.
14:44 Whenever we do a new crop of something planted in here,
14:48 we always top dress with land and sea.
14:50 And then the material in between
14:52 is just more of a barky wood mulch.
14:54 So in this case, we just used a thicker layer
14:57 than we normally do.
14:57 So here's what we've got.
14:59 We've got all of the doubles up here.
15:01 And then I do have some extra,
15:03 I ordered extra blushing ladies
15:04 and Johan Cruyff tulips.
15:09 Last year, I planted in the pots around the Hartley,
15:11 those two tulips,
15:13 and they were so soft and so beautiful.
15:15 I loved the combination.
15:17 I was a little bit tentative about putting them together
15:20 and it ended up being really pretty.
15:21 So I wanted to make sure to have some of those.
15:23 I have no idea where I'm gonna put them.
15:24 If they're gonna go in containers,
15:26 they may even end up out at my parents' house.
15:28 And you guys, that is gonna do it for today.
15:29 I'm super happy getting this much done
15:31 and it was an absolutely beautiful day to be out here.
15:34 The week of temperatures ahead of us, no freezing,
15:38 all days in the 50s, it's just wonderful.
15:40 In fact, when we were out here working on this,
15:42 Paul was working on Christmas lights
15:44 on the other end of the property.
15:46 So anyway, everyone's just getting stuff done
15:48 and it's just such a gift to have such beautiful weather.
15:52 So anyway, thank you so much for watching this video.
15:54 I hope you enjoyed it and we will see you in the next one.