question for gardener types

I now have a couple of hyacinths in a pot. When the blooms are gone, are these bulbs done? Or can I cut back the flower stalks and put some plant food in the pot and plant the things in the ground in the fall?

shoes update

(I will apparently do anything to avoid working on my resume, y'all. Damn.)

My fabulous "pale pink" (= Fox-skin-color, just about) new 'vogs arrived the very day after I had ordered them! And there was much rejoicing! And I tried them on, and the "throat" (as I learned it was called) was too narrow to admit all my metatarsals at once! WOE!

I called the store to say OH NOES, basically, and to wonder if the next size up might be juuust enough bigger to fit properly; and the girl I spoke to asked a series of questions by which we determined that the shoes are precisely the right length for my foot so the next size up wouldn't be a good solution; and the leather can be stretched with one of those shoe-stretching gizmos; and in fact just while I was talking to her I was able to work the left shoe onto my left foot, in a sort of legal sense. I mean to say, that's how supple the leather is, that just getting warm in my hands eased it enough that a thing that had been impossible was technically not impossible anymore.

So every couple of days I've been dragging them on for a few minutes in the evening, preparatory to taking them to the cobbler and having him do it properly. They do fit better every time. They are brilliant.

:-D