Planting 10,000 MORE BULBS in Our Lawn - Ep. 131
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Back in October 2021, we planted over 70,000 bulbs in our front lawn, but we never had an opportunity to plant the sloped portion of our lawn, which was in the original plan. So this year we're making up for it by planting another 10,000 more bulbs by hand. We'll have to wait until spring to see how it turns out, but in the meantime, we got to get some planting done!
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I can’t wait to see how this looks come spring!
One way I plan bulbs is to step deep with a regular shovel, pry open the earth like a mouth, then plant one to three bulbs in a row, add a bit of compost, then stomp the hole shut.
It saves on the back, as you can do all of it standing, once you get the hang of it, and your weight does most of the work.
I really enjoy your videos!!
Enjoy!!!
Thank you Monica for providing your tips here on planting bulbs a back-saver way. I'm sure others will greatly appreciate your suggestion.
10,000 BY HAND IS AN ABSOLUTE LABOR OF LOVE! I'd be right out there with them! 👍
My oh my! Needed those two extra sets of hands on this one!
@@FlockFingerLakes Good morning, it would be my pleasure 🙋
That is an incredible amount of work to do by hand! At 69 my wrists and back can only take so much bulb planting, but it is so worth it when the floral show starts in the very early spring. I have an enormous rock formation in my front yard and last year I started planting bulbs along the edge and am gradually moving out further into the lawn. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love that you are still willing to get out there and do some of that work to enjoy the bulb show. I'm sure your garden next to that lovely rock formation is a show-stopper!
Planting bulbs is a gift we give to our future self. Nice to see Joey again. 🌸🌼🌷
I'm in love with those trees in the background and all those various colors 😍
Thank you for yet another interesting and informative video! Groetjes uit Noord-Holland 👋
The leaf change has been marvelous this year.
Awesome!
10k more bulbs to look forward to!!
I just LOVE a good bulb show in the Spring!!!
That looks like hard but very rewarding work! It's unseasonally warm here in the UK still, so I'm hoping to plant up a small number of snowdrop and fritillary bulbs tomorrow. I look forward to seeing your bulb update next spring.
Bulbs are too cool. It blows my mind that they contain so much beauty in those little, humble bodies.
Also, more ergonomic tools and kneepads, please 🙏😭 I definitely have garden regrets in that arena, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
Very nice of you to think of our knees and back. I will say that Joey went back to using the bulb auger (where you don't have to bend down), but because it's so loud, he didn't want to use it when I was talking on camera, so the hori hori knife came in handy. But yes, highly recommend some extra cushion if you're going to do the tall task of that number of bulbs going into the ground!
@@FlockFingerLakes Makes sense. As I mentioned in another comment, the ProPlugger is a basic, easy tool to use and it helps me plant bulbs in my sometimes rough soil.
Thank you for sharing that looks like fun! Bless y’all💗😃
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching and enjoying with us.
man the view across the pond , had to pause the video to enjoy it
genuinely amazing you could plant that many, my joints could never, and i'm only 24 lol. it'll look so beautiful.
(yay lyme disease, even after being cured as a child, still can cause issues!! woooooo...)
Ugh Lyme. We also have to be very careful around here. They are everywhere and we've found a few crawling on our clothes from time to time. Imperative to check and always such a good reminder to check no matter what the season.
My personal experience for 50 years with late winter and spring blooming bulbs has been that the squirrels will feast on them if less than 4" below ground. So I've given up on crocus, snowdrops and eranthus a long time ago, because the squirrels eat them. You may wish to try cow licks, a wild tuber plant related to prim roses, in your tree border areas.
Welcome to the newbies. I’m sure you are much appreciated.
Many hands make for light work!
Wow! What an effort. It will look amazing.
That's our hope. We would like to step out every morning and feel as if we are in a Monet painting. :)
So pleased to see another episode of your bulb lawn! I loved following its progress in the spring. I'm doing my first "large" planting of bulbs now, partly inspired by your project. Only about 700 bulbs, which as a nearly-broke person I'm still a little guilty about buying lol, but I'm also very excited. Includes non-species tulips (I'll do the species next year I think), daffodils, camassia, dutch iris, Galanthus, Crocus, Chionodoxa, Puschkinia, Ipheion, Anemone blanda, Ornithogalum, Muscari, Hyacinthoides (I'm a little nervous about this one, but it came in a mix), and Allium moly. Maybe next year I'll add some fritillaria. Thanks for the awesome videos!
That's fabulous! You know, the bulbs are generous at multiplying, so that's a really, really nice start. We're actually trying Allium 'Moly' in this new lawn as well. I didn't get too many of those, but thought we'd try it since it fits in with the color palette. We'll compare notes.
What a beautiful place ❤❤❤ and I hope that you guys treat yourself with a nice warm bubble bath after all of that work. Can’t wait for Spring.
Or hot cocoa! It was a warm week but just started to turn chilly again.
I always enjoy your videos, can't wait until spring to see the results.
Us too! We loved the showing last year and think it should be even better this year.
Besides the astonishing amount of labour hours you are doing, aren't those bulbs extremely expensive?
Oh, the autumn colours of the trees!
What a beautiful place you've being creating! It looks like paradise.💜
I have a large garden, and a significant number of Spring bulbs - I have several thousand, not several tens of thousands!, but for the quantities I have I was able to buy Wholesale, rather than Retail, and as an example for Daffodils I pay about £1 GBP / US$1 per Kg - that's about 25 bulbs
Luckily we've partnered with some bulb exporters to help reduce bulb cost and there's LOTS of strategies to keep the bulb costs down, which I shared in an earlier video if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/lX3qfVPILHI/видео.html ... We just got some more bulk bulbs for another area and you can get quite a lot, but they have to be specific species.
@@FlockFingerLakes Thank you!!!
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be able to plant bulbs…
My yard has so many gophers, voles and deer and Daffodils are the only ones I have found that they won’t eat. Ah well, comes with trying to get along with my furry neighbors. 😊
It can be a pain. We have a momma deer who got within our fence and fawned her babies here. We know we'll have to shoo them out come spring if we want to see our tulips. We feel your plight!
This is so inspirational.
Summer, the early-blooming little lavender crocus known as tommies will re-seed in grass.
I am always looking for plant suggestions and tips and tricks to be successful...I enjoyed the video, I look forward to seeing your successes.
Thank you Charles. Happy planting on your end.
I absolutely love the naturalized lawns and yours will be a sight to see next spring! My favorite is the Tulipa Kaufmanniana, yellow with white tips. So pretty! Like tiny water lilies in the grass.
We will have to check that one out. Thanks for sharing your favorite. At first glance, I thought we may have planted it, but I just double checked and we planted one called Tulipa 'kolpakowskiana', which looks similar.
@@FlockFingerLakes The kaufmanniana water lily tulip comes in several colors but I prefer the yellow centers with white tips . The magenta is also beautiful.
Beautiful fall colors!
Thank you for all the great ideas!
You're most welcome. Happy planting in your neck of the woods!
More bulbs!
You know, you can never have too many.
Never!
that you didnt add fritteralia imperialis or even hyacinthoides non scripta( blue bells )
i think allium sphaerocephalon or honestly any allium species would help with pollinators its like a buffet for them
Hey Walter! We considered both, but Fritteralia imperialis was 1.) too tall for the lawn area and 2.) not in the color palette we were looking for. The Hyacinthoides non scripta are considered invasive south of here, so we opted out of those, but instead, in the wild areas, planted our native bluebells, which are Mertensia virginica and an EXCELLENT bumble bee plant. Those are much more expensive, but we think it'll be worth it for establishing that native back in the area and the garden beds. We shared more of our process and design decisions with bulbs in this video: ruclips.net/video/3BGdleor8Hc/видео.html and this video: ruclips.net/video/-eEt6XuYSn4/видео.html in case you're curious. Personally I love A. sphaerocephalon and we decided that we'd do some of those awesome Alliums in the meadow area because many of them are tall and substantial and can handle being in a much taller grass and herbaceous perennial area. We thankfully have a lot of land here (~90 acres), so we can really experiment in different areas and think about how to execute the design, which we're really enjoying doing.
i didnt know the hyacintoides was invase so eh ye xD
and i watched those videos i always love watching plant videos :D
Are you planning to further your education in any specialized direction? Your interest range and knowledge is great, but is there anything which would still intrigue you, if you had time for that? I hope that the Winter will be kind to your many bulbs and the Flock. 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
My goodness, good question. We're constantly learning here. At the end of the day, there's so much to learn and know ... it's endless ... so we're constantly learning and evolving. Sander and I both in particular are voracious when it comes to new knowledge and skills. Sander is more of a problem solver and thrives in inventing new work flows and solutions to problems; whereas I am more centered on diving deeply and broadly into topics around the natural world. We both will go deep for a while on one topic and then move onto something else-related or not. Probably a more generic answer to your question, but the "learning and growing every day" philosophy is real here. Thanks for the question. Got us thinking!
Is the first you have shared of fourth partner? was it Kia? Intrigued to hear more! Welcome Kia!
Would also love to revisit your forests :)
Yes, Kiya is finally stateside. She is Joey's partner, so you'll be seeing some more of Joey and Kiya when they are around and not busy with their work.
I thought the bulbs needed time to establish roots. When is it too late to plant?
We are planting bulbs throughout the month of November. The first bulbs will start to emerge in February or March depending on temperatures, as they are more temperature-induced than anything.
You might have more luck planting snowdrops "in the green"
Deer problems with bulbs in flower?
Can’t hardly wait for spring show of bulbs!
I think we'll have deer browse, if the deer get in to the exclusion fence, but the female that came and fawned inside the fence, is now out with her two babies because we *think* we patched the hole where she entered. We just have to be vigilant until we are able to fence the remainder of the area with a newer fence than what we already have in some areas. Luckily, because this place was an old nursery, they had a substantial deer fence to begin with. ruclips.net/video/ZyunSuno40E/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/rMccnDTTTyQ/видео.html for reference.
Have you looked into dwarf species daffodils?
I have not looked into them. Daffodils give me the most inglorious rash but there are quite a few that naturalized here. I think because of the rash, I steered clear of them, but I will definitely give them a look since you mentioned it!
There is a saying: " Most people plant bulbs too shallow and seeds too deep."
Good saying. The bulbs here can manage being planted a tad deeper to tuck them away from bulb-hungry animals, but there's interesting research (Cornell University) also showing that bulbs planted too deeply is not a benefit. Bill Miller shared that in our initial video where we planted the 70K and that sure is something to think about too!
@@FlockFingerLakes I agree that bulbs that normally naturalize can become unproductive if they become too deep below the soil level due to natural decomposing processes of leaf litter, etc.. In the small home garden bulbs can be dug, divided and replanted at the proper depth. At Flock Finger Lakes that would be impossible! I trust the researchers, and Cornell is top tier in that regard.
I thought anemones weren’t hardy in a zone 5 garden? 🍁🍂🍁🦃💚🙃 I’ve always wanted to plant some but I never found any that were hardy to my zone 6 garden? 🍁🍂🍁🦃💚🙃
Some Anenomes are not hardy. I planted some this year that are only hardy to zone 7, but all of these anenome planted in the lawn area are hardy to Zone 5. Check out the A. blanda types.
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To make holes in the hard ground you should use a borehole drill bit. Comes in many sizes and attaches to a regular battery drill.
They did show one, but I’d get a couple if I had to plant so many. I’ve also used a Pro Plugger tool and it works very well, much easier than a knife or trowel.
Yes, we used the bulb auger that attaches to a battery drill for the most of the lawn, but Joey was kind enough to not use it when we were filming because it was too loud, so the hori hori knife was helpful for more quiet, contemplative plantings. Thanks for your suggestion. For folks who missed that in the video, they will be interested in that tool
I hope you bought organic bulbs because they use an enormous amount of pesticides with growing bulbs. Here in the Netherlands the areas where they grow tulips etc have more cancer and the soils is heavily polluted by these toxic substances.
That’s so sad to hear. It seems that gardening has such a negative underbelly that we have to try so hard to avoid. Do you know of good/safe companies to source from?
I am not sure that there are organic bulbs, unfortunately, especially when growing at such scale as bulb growers do. If you know of anyone producing that way, please do share, as I'm sure more folks would be interested. I'm guessing if anyone does, it will be more a cottage-style industry. It's a topic we discussed briefly as one of the points in the latest native pollinator video. Even though we cannot control the growing practices for bulbs and other plants brought in and grown out in many nurseries, one thing in our control is how we decide to care for the land and what practices we use after the fact.
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I've noticed you refer to things you don't like as "gaudy". It's a huge turn off to have you talk about showy flowers as something tacky - as if your taste is more refined. Perhaps your viewership count would rise if you consider these kinds of things and not insult the taste of those who like something different than you.
I think a garden benefits from the gardener knowing what they dislike as much as what they like. Summer has her opinion on beauty- as do we all- but because she vocalizes her thoughts on dismissing certain plants it may come off a bit more derisively than intended. Im sure she doesnt mean offence and is just thinking out loud as she works through the creative process. Sometimes the videos are very instructional, other times motivational, and I consider this video to be in the latter category. Create the bulb lawn of your dreams and tastes 👍🤗.
@@kareharpies One can talk about what they like without insulting what they don't. It's a skill. And if you're in the public eye it's important to try not to insult your viewers tastes.
@@karynboatman994 true!
In the hort world, flowers are largely bred for flamboyance: larger blooms, double blooms, longer blooms, brighter shades and colors. In general, it's just not my taste and personally I think becomes far too overpowering particularly for what we're going for in this lawn area. When speaking off the cuff, "Gaudy" and "garish" and "flamboyant" are really the first words that come to mind. I prefer the (overly) simple, puny, under-appreciated, unadulterated stuff-again, in general but particularly for this area of the lawn. That's not to say I wouldn't put larger, flouncier, more flamboyance elsewhere in the landscape-where it can handle it (and we are!), but not here. If you find yourself sensitive to my crude descriptions and tact when describing certain flowers, then I do apologize, but I likely will not remove those words from my lexicon when I sense they best describe what I'm aiming for.
@@FlockFingerLakes "If you find yourself sensitive" Dude. I don't think you actually know you're being rude. I noticed it in your interviews with others and your odd way of pronouncing things. You have a very affected way of speaking. It's pretty clear to me now. I had a suspicion you may be on the spectrum before but this solidifies it for me. Thanks but I'll go be "sensitive" elsewhere. Yikes.