100 Bulbs from Holland

The other day at my local international discount grocery store, Aldi, I purchased a box of 100 bulbs for fall planting. The box says “100 Bulbs = 100 Days of Flowers” but what drew me to this purchase was not the 100 Days of flowers but the 100 bulbs of perennials from Holland for a very affordable cost, around $9. I have all kinds of places for these flowers,in the rain garden, around the rain garden, in the center circle of the garden in the backyard garden and in the flowerbed in front and side of the house. Ever since I visited my friend Jim Forest in Holland some years ago, purchasing bulbs from Holland have had a special meaning for me. Also my experience with these bulbs from Holland has been good. With the help of some compost and castings I need to extract from the Worm Condo the next few days the bulbs will have a good start this fall, take root in the winter and be ready to bloom starting next spring. I am excited thinking about all the excitement and color the flowers will bring to our yards. This is one of the good experiences in living in a global market—one can purchase bulbs from Holland at a discount grocery store in the USA.

I brought the final batch of compost and worms from the screen on the worm condo into the GP Growing Power Box in the sunroom today. Now all I need is to sift the soil in the worm condo for buckets of castings, black gold, for the box and other plantings in the sunroom and yard, like the fall planting of the 100 bulbs. I also worked on the bottom shelf of the GP box where the water from the box will fall and flow into a catch basin on the other side of the box. In the next few days I will show pictures of the redesigned GP box in the Sunroom. One picture will say more than all the words above about the box, just like 100 flowers will make a clear and bright statement in the gardens.

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