How To Grow Crocus
Learn how to grow crocus in your flower garden for pretty blooms in the spring. Growing crocus helps to feed bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in your garden when food is hard to find at that time of year. You also get a stunning show of color early in the season before other flowers start to grow.
Equipment
- Bulb planter or dibber
Materials
- Crocus bulbs
Instructions
- Planting
- Select a planting area with rich and well-draining soil that is in full sun to part sun.
- Plant the crocus bulbs 6-8 weeks before your last frost date in the fall. Plant them 3-4 inches deep and 2-3 inches apart making sure the pointed side of the bulb faces up.
- If the ground is dry when you're planting make sure to water it well, but don't let it stay soggy or the bulbs could rot.
- Care
- Crocus are light feeders but can still benefit by top dressing the garden with an inch of good compost in the fall.
- Apply 3-5 inches of mulch in the fall to protect the bulbs from the cold if you live where your winters are harsh. Remember to carefully rake back the mulch in the spring before the flowers start to come up.
- If you are growing crocus in your lawn wait until after the leaves have died back to mow your grass. The flowers need the energy provided by there leaves to feed the bulb for next years flowers.