While waiting for dinner to bake in the oven tonight, Amy and I used our newfangled bulb planter (pictured here on the left) to put a bunch of tulip, iris, and daffodil bulbs we had accumulated in the ground. The bulb planter is really just a mini-post-hole-digger I suppose, except this one does not have a mechanism to release the dirt that gets trapped inside the cylinder. Couple this with some of our clay-rich soil near the house, and it's clear that additional tools will be needed to get the dirt out of the planter.
Thus the weeder rod on the right side of the picture (that's what I'm going to call it anyway). Of the available rod-like items in the garage, it seemed the most well-suited for the task of pushing dirt out of the bulb-planter cylinder, though one could also say that the Iowa State Cyclones are the most well-suited football team in the city of Ames to beat the Oklahoma Sooners. Both scenarios may be factually accurate but that doesn't mean either one is going to work out so great...
Nevertheless I got the hang of scraping the dirt-clay out of the bulb planter, and we put some 50 bulbs in the ground before calling it a day and going in for our dinner. Next spring and summer should be interesting to watch what comes up!
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I'm impressed! Want to come and help me plant my 250 some odd bulbs??
(I didn't think so!) ;-)
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