Date: 04/04/2007

Number: 1

HOME GARDEN REPORT
Six out of ten tulip bulbs planted emerged. So far, 2 have bloomed and the others look like they will be opening soon. We've had temperatures in the 70s-low 80s these past few days. Now a cold front is moving in and we may have snow showers this weekend ![April 6-8]

SCHOOL GARDEN REPORT - sad news
We erroneously reported that our tulips had begun to emerge only to discover they weren't tulips.
Sad news - none will be emerging. When we checked later in the week we discovered the plants were not tulips so we dug one bulb up only to discover it was gray and had rotted from too much water. We found 10 or so rotten out of 24 we planted. We believe they got too much water due to poor soil - clay and shale. The snow cover also remained on the site a long time. Too bad we didn't check our tulips monthly to see when they started to rot. This is my first year with this project, and I have so much more to learn. I will continue to report on my home garden, which w

Manassas, VA

Latitude: 38.8 Longitude: -77.5

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