Fertilizing Bulbs and Perennials

Beautiful weather and plants are growing! Now is the time to be feeding all of your bulbs and perennials.
Your bulbs will be bigger and better next year with a feeding of a granular fertilizer now. Use a fertilizer high in the second number. Such as a 10-20-20 or a 10-55-10. It is that second number that promotes blooms and root growth. The green part of the flowering tulips, daffodils, crocus, etc. takes up the fertilizer and then as the stalks start to die back all of those nutrients go into the bulb below the surface to be stored as next years starting food. No fertilizer makes for a smaller plant and less blooms next year.
Use the same fertilizer around all of your perennial flowers. It does NOT matter if the package says Rose food or Bulb food, it is the numbers that count. Feed all of your plants and you will be amazed at how beautiful they bloom. Feed your perennials again July.
Not sure what you need - come see me and I will help you.
Have you fertilized your lawn? I like to start my lawn out with a fertilizer high in the first number such as a 21-7-14. Now is the time with this bit of rain and sunshine we are getting.
We have a huge selection of garden vegetables, perennials and annuals.
Have you ever wondered why you do the what you do. Why do you love gardening? Maybe it is the genes. Take a look on my website in the section About Linda and you will see that although I do not have any college credentials in the field of gardening, planting is in the veins and I just can't help wanting to play in the dirt.