Have you planted tulips in pots? I'm thinking I want to do that with four or five big pots. Can I just plant them at the regular time and leave them in the garage?
I'm gonna do that with onions on the deck next year too.
Okay, and mums...too soon to plant for fall color? Would they bloom now and not later?
I've never planted tulips in pots. I have planted them in the ground and they came up and bloomed. But the winters aren't cold enough for them so they're more or less like annuals in NC. Guess you could always lift them and store in the fridge or something. BTW the leaves came up the second year, but no blumes.
I've never planted mums from seed. You usually see them at the garden center in the fall.
The stores here already have mums for sale. Of course it is cooler here, but once you get them in the ground, they'll continue blooming all the way to the fall, you can just deadhead the spent blossoms. I love the deep red-wine color variety. I've got some pretty gold/orange ones next to my front door that come back every year. I just have to remember to cut down the old stalks from last year!