Planting Tulips & Adding More Plants to a Trouble Spot in my Flowerbed

It’s time to plant some tulips in large pots so that they’re ready to bloom when the weather is warmer! Plus, I’m fixing an eyesore area along the side of my house where my air conditioner is housed with a new, expanded flowerbed!

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My name is Kaleb Wyse and here, you will find delicious recipes, videos from my farm, garden, and fun home projects. My knowledge has been earned from years of home cooks and farmers in my family. https://wyseguide.com

A farm is much more than a house to live in; it’s a lifestyle. My passion for gardening and landscaping came from outdoor work with my mom in our expansive farm yard, my love for baking came from innumerable short walks to my grandma’s house to make cookies, and as a farmer, my dad taught me that we are the stewards of our land.

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Hello friends the sun is shining it’s a beautiful day you know we’re having an early spring and usually I would say I’m not ready for it but my body says I am it feels good to get outside and do things and the weather is hitting so different this year than it has previous years we are over 20 days ahead where we should be but that means the garden it’s time to do certain things now I have been saving tulip bulbs I got on sale last year and instead of potting them up in the fall and overwintering them I do it a different way so we’re going to go over that we’re gon to see what I’m going to do how I’m going to pot them so I can enjoy them here this spring potted up Kip my Frenchie is going to join us of course for all of it um and I’m going to show you how how unplanned and kind of just like spur the moment I plan my garden flower bed sometimes so on the back side of my house last year I remodeled my second floor they had to add a like a air conditioner unit on the outside of the house it’s an ugly area so we’re going to go talk about the ugly side of a house how I’m going going to start working on it today but it’s going to be a process and I want you to see cuz guess what it’s not a perfect process it’s just how I work through things I’m not someone that always plans it out there are certain areas where I draw everything up there are other areas where I don’t and that’s okay we can do what we want in our own yards right that’s what today’s all about let’s get started to start today a lot of people like to force tulips in the spring and what many people do and I think is probably the correct way if we’re going to be honest is to plant them in contain containers if you’re not going to put them in the ground but if you want to enjoy them in containers in the spring plant them in the fall keep them in a cold area sometimes cold pack them depending where you’re going to put them don’t let them get fully below freezing over the winter cuz that can rot the bulb but keep them around that 55 40 to 50 kind of degree Fahrenheit temperature I go a little bit different route if I find some tulip bulbs in the fall that either I don’t plant or I want to save them for spring I just keep them like I buy them and then keep them cold cuz they need those chill hours over the winter that’s what a tulip needs that’s why we put them in the ground they stay cold when they get planted at that correct depth of 6 to 8 in depending and so instead what I do is I keep these cold I keep them in an unheated garage or in a shed depending how warm or cold of winter we have so you can see these I’ve kept they’re just beginning to sprout it’s time to pot them up and enjoy them for the spring so that’s what we’re going to do so I have some beauty of spring and some red Madonna ones and what I have are just two containers you know I love wake field Pottery these are gorgeous pottery and what I can do with these now is transport them so the reason I don’t do this in the fall is sometimes just time but also then I don’t have to Lug heavy containers around a lot of people also put them in plastic containers and drop them into others you can do that do whatever works for you but the great way of doing it this way it’s really quick and simple to store them because you just keep them in their containers you can even put them in the fridge sometimes depending you don’t want them to get too cold but now you just want to plant them at the same depth you would outside so I have allpurpose pot and soil I’m using my normal go-to my asell allpurpose you really just want to be sure when you’re planting anything container you have the right soil and so you want allpurpose potting soil so it drains correctly and is the right texture for what you’re planting so I’m going to make sure these are somewhat full I’m putting about 12 bulbs per container so I’m going to open them up and plant them all here so instead of just having to dig out the soil I only put in soil up to the right depth and now I’m just going to go around and set each bulb in place and important part if you haven’t planted tulips and don’t feel bad if you haven’t it’s easy the tip they don’t always have a green tip these do because they’re starting to force out the tip goes up you can see the root end where the roots were that goes down into the soil so I’m putting I’m packing these in Fairly tightly cuz when they come up and want to bloom I want them just to be full of beautiful blooms I don’t want them just to be scraggly and have a couple blooms I want them to have lots of beautiful foliage and lots of Bloom so once I have that in there and you can see they’re all I’ll just set in there and this is if you want to do this in the fall and you have plenty of time do it I just find I often run out of time with my normal outdoor chores I put a lot of soil in this one so we’re going to transfer some over into here but I find I just don’t always have time so my thing on gardening is I try to over Garden I do probably too much for what one person can do but I want to do it so I make it work for how I can make it work and that’s what I’m doing here so I’m putting the soil in leaving it about 8 in down so the important part is once these are planted potted up ready to go you want to watch the temperatures so like where I’m living now in southeast Iowa we’re having a very warm we’re very ahead as far as weather goes so I’m not worried about leaving these out and I’ll probably put them on the north side of my house so they stay somewhat cool and don’t come up too quickly cuz I usually wouldn’t expect any tulip until April and of times late April at that I live out in a very open area if you live in town you could have a micro climate that could be different so on these ones I’m putting them around in the same way now you can check if you have a bad one sometimes they will be a little rotten just like in the fall if you buy them but you know what if the green is pushing out I’m still going to pot them up and plant them because they still have a good chance of having a beautiful Bloom so I’m going to set these right on my back patio where nothing is out yet that’s usually where I fill up all of my shade loving plants I save all my ferns and beautiful things like that it’s empty right now and then I will put these by my front door when they’re starting to on to bloom I could put them up there right now but with the sun and warmth on the south side that could speed them up too quickly so here these are going to sit on my back patio they’re protected I am going to make sure to water them so I’m going to water them once now when those greens start coming and popping through the soil I’ll start watering them like a regular container there’s no roots on a bulb yet until those greens pop through the soil they’re not going to be sending Roots out so you don’t want to overburn them with water cuz it can rot the bulb so until then I’m going to let these sit they’re going to be happy and soon enough hopefully probably not till April but maybe maybe soon around we’ll see when these actually happen we’ll actually be able to see some beautiful blooms and it was so simple so I’m going to be honest in the past I would have really not liked showing the side of my house cuz I think it’s ugly you have you know internet cables coming up you’ve down spouts in weird spots I’ve have conduit for this new air conditioner unit that I wasn’t planning for my second floor I have a big radon pipe that emits that gas from the basement so all those things and they had to rip out a couple things last year to put this unit in and I had some really nice box that I tried to save and the timing of when they needed it ripped out and I didn’t know they were going to need to be ripped out just did not work out well so we’re going to talk about this side of the house you can see there is one boxwood right there kind of out of place it’s this a Green Mountain it’s beautiful I have one more Green Mountain at some point here I’m going to put in but what I want to show you is how spur of the moment I’m doing this so a few minutes ago I took my edging tool which you can see right here right there is my edging tool and it’s just my half moon edger you can see the ground is really nice and moist and perfect and I am just eyeballing do you see that line that’s my edging tool going in and knifing a cut line so what I want to do is extend this bed out so I have more space between the air conditioner units to put some shrubs and same up here you can see I’m extending it out because right here is where my furnace vents from and if I put a box would close too close to any shrub it kills it over the winter because it’s heat and air coming out over the winter so I have to stay clear of that so I want to bring this bed out and today is the first step where I’m going to remove some grass and you can see this line look how I know guys it’s not all pretty here it’s also just real that’s what it is um someday I like to dig in my down spouts we’ll see if I get that done but you can see here this line is bringing this whole bed Edge out I like to eyeball this another way you can do this is Lay garden hose water hose out in the shape you want you can spray paint a shape I eyeball it and I go with it as I go so what I’m going to do is start just cutting out this sod putting it here so I can reuse it if I want to and Patch it in places I’m going to watch Kip he’s going to play with his frisbee and hopefully we’ll start on a new bed when I have my line cut with that half moon edger it gives me about a 4 in deep kind of trench I didn’t take a spade a flat spade usually it depends what I have around and I just go through with a sharp spade and start lifting The Sod now you can rent sod Cutters this is a pretty small area while it looks like a lot of work you know renting one is a lot of work too to go get it you know to pay for it so what I can do here is just nicely lift these pieces and then use them at different places in the yard because because it’s growing grass people pay for this now what’s the best thing to do is when you have good moisture in the ground in the spring we hopefully have good moisture which we do right now so it’s pretty easy to work this blade under and quickly lift it out see how quickly I’m able to lift it out so I’m going to work down this line extend the bed and then decide if it’s enough cuz this is the best part of working in your house in your own yard you can do what you want and decide on the go [Music] so I have all the sod removed you can see the piles of it that I’ll either get the gator put some of them on my garden cart there now what I did go through and do then was take my half Hoon edger when I was done and make a nice big trinch that’s usually how I Edge most of my beds and honestly I usually only have to clean it up maybe every other year so this would be the year that I will clean up the front bed that was done about 2 years ago but you can still see that nice Edge so that half moon edger can keep a really clean line now what I might go in here and do to is slightly take out a little bit more up in there I just feel like it could come out a little bit further but what I’m doing now is just placing some plants so a couple of these boxer ones I moved from a different location so you can see they are early spring late winter when things are still dormant but the ground is soft enough to get into you can see that root ball I’m able to get a lot of soil with it and it’s holding on because of the moisture that’s a great time to move things they’re not getting out their Big Spring growth yet so they’re still somewhat dormant so while they’re dormant it stresses them the least to move them and now I’m going to treat them like a new plant just like I’ve planted boxwood before going to Big a dig hole going to put biotone in some plant tone and get those ready I have one new Green Mountain and I’m putting it right here only because of the stuff on the wall I want it to grow larger hopefully 4ts at some point and cover that you know this is an area that you don’t see really from the road you don’t see it when you drive in and I don’t see it from any window so more what this is for is just foundational planting that will have some nice year round effects what I am doing if you notice is pulling about every other so I’m going to have it be a zigzag pattern but I’m giving about 4ot behind some of the boxwood and I’m going to put some large ornamental grasses back there to really fill in I want this to be very just filled with green textures I can’t see it so I’m not worried about blooms but I just want it to be full so the ground is covered but also give some nice interest I’m thinking Carl Forester grasses back here we’ll cover those in a different video I’m finishing up with the last boxwood which is a transplanted one and I want to show you how the transplanting is somewhat the same process as if it’s brand new and the reason I say that is you’re displacing those roots and stressing them slightly by cutting them from their where they were growing to now in a new spot so when I dig a hole I again do it ample size maybe not quite twice as big but good size and I just do my normal biotone and plant starter so unlike in the spring when we’re just fertilizing things since I’m transplanting these roots it’s good to make sure you give them a good base with two products like this that really help them get acclimated in the space now last year I had a good dose of compost for my pile that I put on here and worked into this bed so I’m not amending you can always amend soil at least up to 50% with something like compost compost is not soil it’s organic material that enriches your soil now what I’m going to do is put in this transplanted one and it’s a pretty big one but you can see it very quickly goes in the hole now I’m making sure to stay far enough away from my exhaust pipe to my furnace because like I said I don’t want it to kill out this box in the winter which can happen um and then obviously it’s not looking too good here otherwise that’s because it’s still early I don’t have the plants here I’m going to put in it’s going to be lots of grasses like I said lots of Carl Forester grass which is tall upright will look nice kind of in the background here towards the front I might do some all gold Japanese Forest Grass it does really well for me here a little to the South where there gets a lot of dappled Sun mostly shade out here I might have to do more of a prairie grass drop seed something like that it’s more of a fountain grass for lower grasses and I also dug up some different stockies this is Helen vonstein Lamb’s Ear and that does really well here too cuz it gets some nice sun and it really can just grow and almost be a ground cover so kind of a mixture of those things I really think are what’s going to look good here so I have more work cut out for me I have more to add into the space we’re going to really talk next time when I do more on this area which might not be for a little bit when plants start coming into nurseries we’re going to talk more about what I’m going to use around these units to cover them up and pretty much just give them some visual interest as opposed to an isore it’s things we all have it’s things we all deal with and that’s what this area is really about filling in with mostly stuff I had um and now hopefully in the coming months making it look a little bit more beautiful a little bit more natural um just so it Blends into the area so I hope that kind of gives you a starting point for where I’m going and hopefully where we’re going to be [Music] headed