Growing Tulips

Growing Tulips

Executive Summary about Growing Tulips by Tracy Ballisager

Tulips need to be planted in late fall or early winter for the best tulips growing. You need to plant them before the freezing weather because tulips need a cold period when they are dormant and resting between their shows. 

You should ensure you choose the best quality tulip bulbs for successful tulips growing. If you fertilize the plantings every season and plant bulbs every few years, the results should be good.

Before planting your bulbs, work the ground well to about a foot in depth. Work in some manure, peat moss and compost if the soil is sandy or heavy. Make sure you place the bulbs pointed end first into the ground. Plant them about six inches away from each other because tulips look nicer is a group than individually. When you have planted the bulbs, water the ground well to settle the soil around them. 

If the weather is severe, you should mulch the growing tulips after the first frost, with a good covering of grass clippings, pine boughs, leaves or straw. Remove this cover in early spring. 

If you don't cut all your tulips for an indoor display, you need to cut them when you notice them fading because seed pods will take food that would otherwise go to the bulb for the following year's flower growth.

Growing Tulips For Garden Delight

Executive Summary about Growing Tulips by Peter Damien Ryan

Tulip bulbs require 10-12 weeks (minimum) of really cold or freezing soil in order to set the buds. 

Don't over water in the summer when they are dormant - as this may cause them to rot. Ditto for a low level area where water gathers. They prefer a dry ground during dormancy.

Compost the growing area in spring - but you probably will be doing this for all the garden anyway.

After flowering, ensure that you leave the foliage until it goes yellow - this tells you that the bulb has enough energy stored for dormancy and to produce good sized flowers the next spring. 

Tulip bulbs do not need fertilising - and don't put any in the hole where you plant the bulbs - it burns them.

Like daffodils and other bulbs, tulips can thrive on benign neglect. Just give them a chance to do their own thing - store energy after flowering, don't get their feet wet in summer, compost in spring and that's it.

Like any bulbs, you can place tulips anywhere you like. Just note if the area is one you water well in the summer, it will pay you dig up the tulip bulbs and store them.

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