Hi Jessie,
Welcome to The Garden Helper's Forum!!!
We are very glad you found us.

I"m going to move your question into the
"Plants and Flowers" you'll get a better traveled
area of our gardeners for your question there.

We're very happy you're following the calendar here! Thanks for letting us know that!
It's wonderful to hear!!!
Bill, put alot of work into those pages.

For me to answer one of your questions,
I personally never rubber band my tulips as they are dying back, if they are getting too brown for me, I just snip the ends with some scissors, maybe a total of 3 or 4 times depends on how long the stems were, they need that green area exposed until it turns brown to put food back into it's bulb for food and flower next year..
I never cover it!!!

And staking the glad's, sometimes they can get tall and leggie, and when the flower finally opens they get very top heavy, so a good staking when you plant them will ensure the roots grow around the stake early instead of damaging them later when they are big and you can't see the roots and poke thru them. And will help to keep them up right once they get top heavy!!!

I'm sure many other gardener's will come thru and help you alot more with all of your questions!!!

And we welcome all of your gardening questions...
Love to help!!!

Weezie

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





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