Dig Drop Done Bulbs $5,000 Yard Makeover Contest

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Bulbs. Dig, Drop, Done.. All opinions are 100% mine.

I have always shied away from planting bulbs for flowers since I assumed they were complicated and you had to know all kinds of specifics about each different kind.  After all, I don’t know anyone except retired people who spend a lot of time gardening that plant bulbs.

That’s when I found out how wrong I was from the site DigDropDone.com!  It’s all about how easy it is to use bulbs for your flowers, whether you’re an empty nester, a single city girl, or a supermom in suburbia.

Surprisingly, some of the most beautiful and most expensive flowers from your nursery and florist come from bulbs and are very easy to grow yourself.  You just dig a hole in your soil (3 times the diameter of the bulb), drop the bulb in pointed side up, then fill back in with the soil you removed.  Done!  When you plant in the spring or  fall, you’ll have wonderful pops of color after you’ve forgotten about planting them.

Dig Drop Done also has other bulb tips to make your growing even easier, like raking your autumn leaves over your just-planted bulbs to use as extra bedding and insulation from the cold.

Although I’ve never used bulbs before, I’d love to give them a try for tulips in decorative pots for Mother’s Day gifts.  Just tie a pretty ribbon around the pot once the flowers have bloomed, add a handmade card signed by the kids, and Grandma’s Mother’s Day gift is ready to deliver!

Bulbs are great for gift giving, flower gardening, and even inside décor to spruce up your house.  You can visit www.digdropdone.com to learn more about how easy it is to get started with bulbs!

Garden Guru Bulbs Tool

The Garden Guru tool on Curbside Chaos shows how to plant which bulbs are right for where you live.  You’ll see a map of either the United States or Canada in the lower left corner.  To use it,

1. Choose your country

2. Find your location, then note the color.  Don’t click on the map, nothing will happen.  Instead, match your city’s color to the colors on the right and click the square.

3. Choose what month you’d like your bulbs to bloom in to see your available bulbs.

3.  Read your planting guide for step by step instructions for your location.

Here is my planting guide for growing bulbs in freezing cold Fairbanks, Alaska:

Oh no!  I guess I’m stuck with planting my bulbs in pots indoors and moving them outdoors during our very short summer time here in Alaska.

$5,000 Yard Makeover Contest

Dig Drop Done is runnng a $5,000 yard makeover contest at CurbsideChaos.com to help you spruce up your boring yard with help from Taniya Nayak ( @TaniyaNayak).  The contest is easy to enter.  You just upload a photo of your ugly or boring yard on their site – you can even see the entries of your competition.

Visit Curbside Chaos to enter the contest with your yard photo.

If you win, you’ll get a home visit from Taniya Nayak to help you design an all-new landscape for your yard with bulbs!

Plus, if you share about the contest on twitter with the hashtag #CurbsideChaos, you’ll help earn money for Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit focused on affordable homeownership.

Of the Dig Drop Done ladies, I relate most to Marcy, The Super Mom because we have almost the same life!  She is a married mom of 3 who loves homemaking and also works a job, just like me.  Specifically, when she talked about color coding her children’s household items and matching them to the bulbs each child planted in the back yard, it sounded just like something I would do!

Go enter the contest at Curbside Chaos (and don’t forget to tweet) for your chance at a yard makeover, courtesy of Bulbs. Dig, Drop, Done!

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