Newbie, don't waste your time.....the reason why spring bulbs are planted when they are is because the bulb needs a particular temperature range to promote ROOTS. Without a root, the tulip, the crocus, the daffodil bulb is just fodder for squirrels, mice, skunks and whathaveya. You didn't plant them when you were supposed to. Now you pay. They are useless unless you can keep them in cold storage until next fall. Chances of that....keeping a bulb for 7 months...is pretty nil. The bulbs will dry out and be useless. Its forever being said ---"oh, that's alright, just plant them, they're tough, they'll probably just grow foliage until next season"....and so on and so on. They wont. I suggest you throw them into the compost pile now so that in the fall what comes from them, might be used in your garden to promote bulbs that have been properly planted. Next fall....write across your calendars....BUY BULBS PLANT BULBS. Do this for the months of September/October/November/December.....whenever you get around to purchasing them. But, when you purchase....plant them IMMEDIATELY.

I'd put them in the refrigerator for a week, then plant them and see what they do. If they don't bloom this spring, they most likely will next spring.

Think spring??? It's think babies, what a bunch of little beauties & parents arn't bad either!!!Each one is little ball of sunshine tho! Do they stick around & raise them at your place or were they just passing through!! How lucky you are to have such majestic birds visit you! My favorite toy was made by my dad, It was a swan glider that I sat in & loved to go back & forth, we lived in Glendale until I was about 4 ,well from 3 mos until 4 yrs as I was born in S.D. I guess we left it for some other child to enjoy. I have pics but guess no way to get on Internet!! How is the snow at your house, still stacked high? Enjoyed the pic! Jan

I planted shallots purchased at the feed store last fall.I got huge tops which bloomed but never died down.Finally ,I cut back all the tops in the spring, hoping the bulbs would finally get the message & mature to be harvested.Nope. Since then, I have a whole new crop of green shoots from multiple little unmatured bulbs. They just won't quit. People here use "onion tops" from shallots to sprinkle on gumbo & most everything else. Do I have a mutant Cajun shallot that never matures/develops a papery skin or am I missing something? I've grown onions before, so maybe I'm expecting onion type behavior from shallots.Don't stores sell mature shallot bulbs, though?? The original bulbs I purchased looked like that. I think...