Thank you!

Just a little tid bit for you, you should always wait til after Mothers Day to plant anything outside, the ground is still to cold, we have had snow storms here in NY at the end of April ugh !!!! Maybe you should lay a sheet or something over the areas just to keep out some of the cold air. Good Luck!

Thank you! Ill remember that for next season :)

I made the mistake of transplanting caladiums into the ground last Wednesday because I needed the space under lights. It fell to below 40 for a few days and all the leaves died. I dup them up and out them back into pots and back under lights and they are already flushing out new leaves. The soil temps are about 55 for me. I had put down black garbage bags to keep down weeds and heat the soil a few weeks ago. The caladium tubers I planted directly 2 weeks ago have sent out roots are seem to be sprouting. Not sure if I would start 400 tuners indoors again. Doesn't seem like its worth the hassle for 2 extra weeks of color.

Thr caladium bulbs that you are talking about are they in the ground and are showing after 2 weeks or are they indoors? I planted mine a week and a half ago outside and in illinois we recieved 2 days of frost advisories. Thats a great idea to warm up the soil. Im going to do that. Anything to save the 200+ bulbs I just.planted :)

I started about 20 indoors first week on march. The leaves collapsed after the lows reached the low 40s. The other ones in beds are under plastic. I routed around for them and they were fine with nice 3" roots and little pink growrh. The so was warm about 2 inches down under the black plastic garbage bags. It was actually a little steamy even in overcast weather.

Thanks for the advice Solomon, I put the bags down today on my garden bed, so hopefully this will speed the process up a little and keep my bulbs happy.