This week & # 39; Gardening Tips: tulip bulbs cooling, clean the garden

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Photo by Michael Demo Shrouded

Vegetable cleaning time: If you do not want to plant fresh vegetables of the season, have grown weeding and clean beds. Then very mulch beds with at least 4 to 6 inches from sheets or other materials mulch. This makes it much easier to plant next spring, and you need only remove the mulch to make the soil and the plant.

The growing tulips in city park

Tulips photo by Chris Granger

Cool tulips: Tulips and hyacinths bloom better when chilled before planting in the ground. Put the onions in the drawer of the refrigerator for six to eight weeks and facilities in late December or early January. the fruit is not in the same compartment. Fruit emit ethylene gas that causes the lamps abnormal or no bloom.

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Add color to your garden - Bands: Option for fresh paint Grands season includes a selection of super plants Louisiana sorbet Viola, clove Amazon, pictured above - Swan Columbine, carbon Redbor, Blue Diamonds Larkspur, Homestead Purple Verbena Camelot and digital.

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Photo Art Boe, consultant collection of tropical plants

Do not worry about the perceived: start As the weather cools and hear about the wind chill in weather reports, remember - that plants do not feel a sense of warmth. If it is 40 degrees with a felt 28, you do not freeze tropical plants on damaged worried by temperatures. Focusing on the actual temperature. dry wind may occur in some tropical wind during the cold, but this is different from frost damage.

Dan Gill is a gardener with the AgCenter LSU. E - mail questions about dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu~~V~~plural~~3rd or add them to the comments section - below. Follow their stories www.nola.com/homegarden on Facebook and @nolahomegarden in Instagram.

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