After finishing my speech on lasagna gardening at the monthly meeting of my garden club, I ask for their suggestions and observations on forcing bulbs. Everyone agreed that I needed to refrigerate them - however, there was no agreement on how long.
When I googled forcing bulbs, the University of Minnesota Extension Service suggested refrigerating them October 1st for 12-13 weeks. Click here for their website. Hit the left arrow to return.
As I didn't get them into cold storage until several weeks late (October 24), I hope they are forgiving. I chose the refrigerator rather than the garage as the bulbs will not survive if they freeze, and I couldn't guarantee that.
Since I have multiple bulbs, I will mark my calendar for the day after Christmas to start rotating them out of cold storage. We will see how the experiment goes...
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