Now is the time. Go out and cut as much forsythia as you want. The plant grows like a weed and for each cut, you'll be rewarded with long straight stems for the next winter's forcing. Put the forsythia in a vase, wait a week or two and you'll have flowers, wait longer and you'll get green leaves.
For a prior post and additional pictures on forcing forsythia and bulbs, click here: http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2006/02/forcing-forsythia-and-bulbs-of-all.html
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
When Do You Force Forsythia? Now is the Time
Posted by Julia Erickson at 11:22 PM
Labels: Cut and Forced Flowers
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1 comment:
I like to do this too. Our single digit temps might have nipped some buds the past couple of days. UGH
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