Turning Garden Bulbs Into Houseplants

We love our houseplants. Recently we've started a vegetable garden that has taken off thanks to our backyard chicken compost.

Here's how we transfer bulb plants indoors for beautiful foliage that lasts all winter!
---huge range of bulbs for fall planting looking ahead to next year

Transfer to Planter. Dig up the root ball and take care to protect roots while transferring to a planter. We frequently use plastic flower buckets from trader joe's. ---all year trader joes is happy to share a few buckets if you ask a floor manager

Water Bottle. Moving water deep into the soil is important to keep to surface dry. It makes the soil less habitable to aphids and rot. Make a few slots in the plastic bottle and keep the cap on to allow water to penetrate soil around the roots.

Installing a bottle isn't necessary but it's certainly helpful.

Here I use crushed landscape bricks. Easy to use any gravel or pebbles that you may have available. Popular are stones sold for fish tanks.

To further protect the soil surface. Add gravel or stone to keep a dry surface that's less hospitable to insects and rot. Simply cut back the water bottle once gravel is in place.

Hope you found this useful!

In the past we've always seen it as a risky to bring dirt in from the garden. Note that I sprayed some neem oil at the top of the dirt but didn't bake the dirt as I typically do.

Here are a few others from the garden:

• Chicken Coop Heater - coffee can hack to keep chickens warm through winter
  
• Propagate Herbs - simplest way to propagate herbs
• Citric Acid - why we keep CA in a salt shaker