a neighbor asked me today when you fertilize bulbs- tulips and daffodils and crocus. i think we are supposed to fertilize after it flowers and before the leaves die, correct? so it can "store up" the nutrients for the following spring. am i right? i want to make sure before i tell her.

Oops, maybe I'm doing something wrong. I always fertilize my bulbs in the fall when they are putting out new roots so they can absorb the nutrients. I thought when the bulbs go dormant in the summer their roots die back and they cannot take in nutrients, but maybe that's for zone 5. Then when the temperature cools in the fall the cycle starts all over.

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Franny unless I am doing it wroung...It is kind of like fertilizing roses....The bulb food I use is granusles and you just sprinkle around the bulbs and mix it in the soil (careful to not disturb the roots). When planting a new bulb bed, bulb food can be added then also, but spring (as soon as the danger of last freeze is past)is the normal time to fertilize your bulbs.

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