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| | WANT ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME AND WITH A MINIMUM OF BACK BENDING DISCOMFORT and NO ADVERSE WEATHER TO PUT UP WITH? | |
| | IF YOU HAVE SPRING BULBS and/or SUMMER LILY BULBS TO PLANT:
AND YOU WANT TO MAKE IT EASY, COMFORTABLE AND ENJOYABLE AND WOULD LIKE TO:
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| | • Plant them sitting in the comfort of your home--
or standing at your work bench. | |
| | • Avoid unnecessary back pain from incessant bending over to plant your bulbs. | |
| | • Avoid the discomfort of rain or weather that is too cold or hot. | |
| | • Enjoy relaxing radio music and news programs along with your coffee, or soda while you plant. | |
| | • Be able to start & stop, or interrupt your planting at any time you so desire with no consequences, i.e., spread your task over days? | |
| | THEN CONSIDER, ‘GARDENING IN THE KITCHEN’™ with the PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™® to create your flower bulb ‘MINNIE GARDEN™ for grouping of similar type bulbs & ‘MINNIE BOUKAY GARDEN™ for mixed types of bulbs for a long blooming season. | |
| | You can have all the above benefits while you design and plant your flower bulb ‘MINNIE GARDENS’™ in your PROTECTA-BULB CAGES™® without any stress, pressure or discomfort and without any unfavorable weather conditions! | |
| | YOU CHOOSE THE TIMING FOR YOUR BULB PLANTINGS AT YOUR CONVENIENCE!!! | |
| | HERE IS HOW! | |
| | 1. PRE-DESIGN your Protecta-bulb cage™ bulb layouts on paper! | |
| | 2. PRE-MIX YOUR PLANTING SOIL: 50% regular top soil with 50% potting soil with heavy emphasis on peat moss, (such as miracle grow potting soil.)
Bring into the room (area) where you will plant your bulbs in the Protecta-Bulb Cages™ | |
| | 3. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COUNTER OR WAIST HIGH WORK BENCH TO WORK ON, SET-UP A CARD TABLE where you can sit comfortably. Put down a thin piece of plastic or drop cloth on the floor where you plan to work, (to contain soil mix spills.) | |
| | 4. LINE THE INSIDE OF YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™ using a "pre-cut liner" or use either 11” wide plain paper towel or a sheet of newspaper as per detailed instructions, “A” “Lining Your PROTECTA-BULB CAGE ™®” at end of this message. | |
| | 5. PLANTING BULBS IN YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™® to create your ‘MINNIE GARDENS’™ AND ‘MINNIE BOUKAY GARDENS’™ make sure that you: follow the instructions, “B” “Planting Your Bulbs In Your PROTECTA-BULB CAGE”™® outlined at the end of this message. | |
| | 6. PLACE YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™® BULB & CAGE MARKERS with appropriate color and bulb type tabs or caps inside of, and at the middle of each end of all cages-(except for the LBC-2 cage 12.5” x 12.5”) where a cage marker is placed inside all four (4) corners. | |
| | Your ‘MINNIE GARDEN’™ or ‘MINNIE BOUKAY GARDEN’™ is ready to be placed in your garden bed!! | |
| | FINAL STEP:---INSTALLING YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™® MINNIE GARDENS’™ OR ‘MINNIE BOUKAY GARDENS’™ as per instructions “C” at the end of this message. | |
| | YOU ARE DONE!!--- and can rest assured that your expensive investment in flower bulbs will prosper for years SAFE FROM RODENT DESTRUCTION. | |
| | “A” INSTRUCTIONS: “LINING YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™®” | |
| | A. TO COVER LENGTH (OF BASE) & 2 SIDES OF CAGE: | |
| | 1. Use a "pre-cut liner or;
2. With a large piece of art paper or news paper, use an unformed cage as a template. Outline and cut your liner. | |
| | 3. Place the liner into cage so that it fits tight against both the bottom and sides of cage. Make sure liner is pressed into the creases of your PROTECTA-BULB CAGE.™ ® | |
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| | "B" INSTRUCTIONS: "PLANTING YOUR BULBS IN YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE"™® | |
| | A. LEAVE ADEQUATE SPACING between bulbs and bulbs and cage sides for those bulbs that multiply annually.
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| | B. PUT 2” OF SOIL MIX (1 ˝” for SBC-1, small bulb cage) in bottom of cage and compact same. | |
| | C. SET BULBS UPRIGHT with bud area pointing upwards, surround bulbs with soil mix, then cover with additional soil and gently compact. | |
| | D. FILL CAGE with soil and compact to bring soil level slightly above level of top horizontal wire of cage sides. | |
| | E. SECURE TOP ON CAGE BY:
Placing top on cage so that at least ľ of the sides vertical protruding wire ends extend through the inside of the 4 outside horizontal wires of the top. Using the tip of your trowel, bend over outward 90ş 1 or 2 of the protruding wire ends as follows:
a. on cages with sides under 7” - at one spot in middle of side.
b. on cages with sides 7” or over - at two spots evenly spaced on sides. | |
| | "C" INSTRUCTIONS: INSTALLING YOUR PROTECTA-BULB CAGE™® "MINNIE GARDENS"™ OR "MINNIE BOUKAY GARDENS"™ . | |
| | FIRST: KEEP IN MIND THAT ONCE YOUR ‘MIINNIE GARDENS’ ARE COMPLETE - YOU HAVE THE LUXURY OF SELECTING A CONVENIENT TIME OF YOUR CHOICE TO INSTALL THEM IN YOUR GARDEN BEDS. | |
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| | A. Dig a hole 2” wider and longer than the Protecta-Bulb Cage™ you are planting, -- and 2” - 3” deeper than the depth of the cage. | |
| | B. Mix in the appropriate amount of fertilizer into soil at bottom of hole. | |
| | C. Place Protecta-Bulb Cage™ ‘Minnie Garden’ into hole such that the cage top is 1” below the surrounding ground. | |
| | D. Pack soil around sides of cage. | |
| | E. Push Protecta-Bulb Cage™ markers another 1” into ground so that the bottom end (of marker) protrudes through bottom of the cage.
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| | F. Cover top of cage with 1” soil and 1-1˝” of mulch cover. | |
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