It’s time to plant bulbs for the new spring next year. If you want tulips, daffodils, snowdrops or crocuses, now is the time to start thinking about buying and planting fall bulbs. But before you get your gardening gloves on, here are some fall tips to planting bulbs.

• Plant your fall bulbs at least 6 weeks before hard ground frosts.
• It’s best to plant your bulb on a fall crisp sunny day.
• When buying bulbs, pick large bulbs which indicates a mature bulb in order to yield large flowers.
• Plant your bulbs as soon as possible or else store them in a dry cool place between 50 and 60 degrees F.
• When planting bulbs avoid planting them in a soggy, shady place. Bulbs like sunny dry places.
• Plant bulbs in bunches, 6-12 for small gardens and 12-24 for large gardens. Dig a big trench to plant your bulbs.
• Plant large flowering bulbs such as tulips and daffodils 8-12 inches deep and smaller flowering bulbs like crocus and snowdrops 4-6 inches deep.
• You may have difficulty finding the right way up for some bulbs such as windflowers. To resolve this plant these bulbs sideways.