Protecting Bulbs from Animals and Cold Weather — VOA Learning English
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It would not be autumn without planting advice from Associated Press gardening expert Jessica Damiano.
Damiano recently wrote about her experience planting garlic cloves. She was concerned not just about protecting them from low winter temperatures. She was worried that animals would dig up her bulbs and eat them.
Tulips, daffodils and garlic, for example, produce bulbs that bloom in the spring in places that have four seasons and cold winters.
To keep away animals, Damiano put netting over the soil and covered it with straw to a thickness of 10 centimeters.
She said this is good to do with any bulbs, especially ones like garlic, tulips and crocuses. That is because animals like to eat the…
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