Organically grown Hyacinth!

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My Hyacinth are finally blooming!
These bulbs were planted last growing season in my main flowerbed and look stunning after the winter soil preparation that I did this year. The entire area received dry molasses, corn gluten-meal, alfalfa-meal, green-sand, lava-sand, zeolite, native compost, expanded shale, earthworm castings, and fish extract.
The intensive organic amending over the winter has turned the soil into a biological wonderland with a huge earthworm population. Even the mulch is carefully selected organic shredded tree trimmings that decomposes beautifully. Needless to say, the Hyacinth bulbs are “happy little campers” right now:

The pink and the violet ones above are blooming like crazy, but get a load of what my white one has done! TWO bloom clusters! I have never seen Hyacinth do this:

In one of my other “test areas”, the Daffodils are loving the loose organic soil and are looking super healthy:

FYI: The mulch in this area is shredded cedar that I “borrowed” from the field next door. The city had shredded most of the native cedar trees that grew in the field and didn’t know that they mulched that field with one of the best things out there. {chuckle} The native plants that they were trying to clear in the field are now sprouting and growing like crazy! Gotta love it!

I just hope that this is an early sign of how good bed preparation can pay off!
_N2O

• 7 Mar, 2010
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