When planted tulips: the secrets of growing

Tulips, no doubt, are very popular in the whole world bulbous plant. You are burning with desire on your site to make a beautiful flowerbed, which will please you in the spring, and look after yourself for new varieties, but you doubt when you plant tulips? This article will help you understand this issue, and the flowering flower beds will appear every year.

Let's start, perhaps, with the most common mistake of beginning florists. Seeing early in the spring in a shop of tulip bulbs, many are "tempted" and buy. Having planted them in their own garden, they look forward to a beautiful flowering and are very disappointed, having received only green leaves. Why does this happen? In 95% of the bulbs do not have time to take root and produce only foliage. Do not get upset, tulips will blossom next year.

When do you need to plant tulips?

In order to see the spring beautiful flowers, plant tulip bulbs in autumn - in September and October. At this time and planting material at times more, and the selection of varieties is very diverse.

When planting, you should focus on soil temperature, which should be in the range of +4 to +10 ° C. Bulbs are well rooted at a temperature of + 4 ° C. It will be good, if from the moment of planting tulips before the onset of persistent frosts, not less than 3-4 weeks will pass. During this time, the bulbs can well take root.

When the tulips are planted, they are deepened into the earth for 5-15 cm, depending on the variety and size of the bulb. In other words, it will be a third of the height of the bulb, so you do not deepen them very much. In the classical literature, it is recommended that the area where the bulbs were planted is covered with straw, peat or loose leafy ground. And if in your strip very severe frosts - cover a layer of leaves or branches of spruce, it will protect the plants from freezing. In spring, the shelter must be removed so that the sun's rays can warm the soil.

And do not be afraid that your shoots will soon come out from under the ground, they are frost-hardy and will withstand frosts to -12 ° C.

When planting tulips, you can not in no case put fresh manure into the ground! This will lead to infection of bulbs with fungal diseases or decay. If you want to energize the soil in which you will plant the planting material, then it is better, several weeks before planting, prepare the beds, digging the soil with compost, and remove the roots of the weeds. Top dressing of tulips will have to be done in the spring.

The soil in which plants will be planted is also given attention when planting tulips. It is best for light bulbs of sandy loamy soil. And if the earth is very dense and heavy - this can be solved by adding river sand, composting, or padding loose, fertile soil.

Now you can easily answer the question: "When to plant tulips - in the autumn or in the spring?" In conclusion, I want to draw your attention to the planting material. If you have hybrid varieties of tulips, they are recommended to excavate (in June) every year in order to preserve the variety. Ordinary and unpretentious varieties can grow without a transfer in one place for several years.