Your Spring flowering bulb plants have probably bloomed by now and you're ready to make way for annual flowers. Here are some tips to keep your bulbs their healthiest, and assure gorgeous flowers for next Spring.
* After the flowers are spent, trim off the dead flowers.
* Leave the foliage in tact until it turns yellow or brown, allowing the plant to get needed nourishment for next year's flowers
* To keep slugs away, mix garlic into the dirt around the bulbs. The garlic's oil causes an overproduction of mucus in the slug, and they dehydrate and die.
* Another method to control slugs is to put crushed egg shells in the soil. The shells will cut the slug, and kill them.
* Summer flowering bulbs such as Dahlias, Iris, and Lilies are planted in the Spring rather than Fall. Follow the same planting and care as the other bulbs.
