The Fecundity of my Compost Pile
Jody and I never seem to have overly much luck when it comes to gardening here. Last year we put our tomatoes next to the house, but they didn't get enough sun and really didn't produce much. The cucumbers, meanwhile, got put out near the fence and died from the heat. So this year we're going to reverse the gardening areas, once Jody gets around to
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Get a box of bulb fertilizer--it does the right balance time-released over six months. The bulbs aren't blooming because they don't have enough stored food.
Put in as many new bulbs as you can afford, mixing bulb fertilizer in with the dirt around them. Same bulb fertilizer thing with the old bulbs if you want to try to salvage them--expect mixed results.
Keep your dug bulbs in the freezer and plant them in the spring, so the fertilizer will release on the right schedule--while the plant has leaves.
The old bulbs will have to do just leaves the first year after you plant them with fertilizer. Then they might bloom the next year. Fertilize all your bulbs every year.
Bulbs pretty much either eventually "naturalize" so you can ignore them, or they don't. If they don't, then even fertilizing them every cycle, you're going to lose some and have to fill in with new bulbs as replacements.
You can go organic and feed them with compost or aged manure, but I don't know how much or how often.
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My compost pile is now crawling with cucumbers, so I think I might grab the compost from the section that isn't producing anything for the tomatoes and peppers we're planting, but leave the rest alone and see what happens rather than trying to transplant.
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