October is here and it's time to plant spring flowering bulbs.  

 

According to The Farmer's Almanac October 2 through 7 are good days to plant.  The best days for root crops are October 6 and 7.  I would consider flowering bulbs root crops, much like potatoes, onions, beets.  So get out those daffodils, tulips, lilies, crocus, and hyacinth bulbs.  It's time to get them in the ground.  Or pots.  That's my plan for red tulips:  in pots with purple pansies on top.  Then next April the red tulips will come up through the pansies.

 

It's also time to plant garlic bulbs.  Plant the individual cloves with the paper on, about one inch deep, pointy end up.  And over the winter new garlic heads will form and put up green growth in spring.  You can harvest the heads in summer when the green tops drop over, and you will never have to buy garlic again.  Just replant the cloves in October and harvest them in June!!

 

The picture is a small portion of this year's garlic harvest.  Some of it will get replanted.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!