The smaller bulbs of grape hyacinths can easily be forced indoors, but larger hyacinth bulbs require a bit more effort. Buy bulbs that have been specifically prepared for indoor forcing with a ...

Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...

Q: My daughter teaches first grade and tried to force tulips and daffodils in glass beads and water last winter. It was a failure. She would like to do it again this year, but she does not want to use ...

Fall finds garden centers hawking bulbs for tulips, daffodils and other spring bloomers. You can plant these outdoors before cold weather comes, or bring them inside and engage in a little trickery ...

Nothing's cheerier on a nasty, cold, wet winter day than to have blooms indoors. Many bulbs and spring-flowering branches can be forced inside, usually flowering more quickly than they do outside. • ...

The bottle with one drop of ketchup left, the never-opened container of ancient low-cal dip (it seemed like a good idea at the time), and that carton of — of — nobody can even remember: It’s time to ...

Other spring-flowering bulbs require a chilling period before they'll bloom. This includes tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, Dutch iris and scilla. An extended period of cool temperatures ...

In the 1600s, when hyacinth bulbs were brought from Turkey to Europe, there was speculation that it was a new food. People thought the bulbs resembled a turnip, so they cut them in pieces and boiled ...

Forcing bulbs such as narcissus means to place a flower bulb in a vase or bowl of water then trick or “force” it to bloom before spring. Courtesy photo The second week of November is a good time to ...

Every fall, I enjoy the ritual of buying and planting hyacinth bulbs to force into bloom in the middle of January. With hardly any effort, I can have hyacinths blooming in late January indoors! I also ...

Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. I thought I was so smart. Last fall, in the season of bulb madness, I hung onto about 25 Dutch hyacinths rather than plant them in ...