Gardening often is an exercise in thinking ahead. Being able to enjoy flowers, foliage and food from the garden depends on whether you ticked off the requisite list of to-dos in previous seasons.

That’s definitely the case with flowers like daffodils that grow from bulbs.

While they won’t bloom until spring, now through November is when you need to plant these bulbs. This is because many of them require a certain amount of time in the chilly ground to trigger their beautiful blooms in February, March and April.

Don’t know much about bulbs? Don’t be intimidated — you might know more than you think.

Consider the onion that may be sitting around in your kitchen. That’s a bulb that happens to be edible.

A bulb is an underground structure that some plants use to store their food supply. It

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