I plant tulips immediately after digging in the fall, there is no need to drag bulbs around the site.

Usually, immediately after flowering, the tulips are cut off withered and yellowed leaves, and in early July, bulbs are dug out. Then they are dried under a canopy and again planted on the flowerbed in August-September. That's only when there are many tulips on the site and they are of different varieties, such a task can become quite tedious. We tell you how to plant tulips in the ground to simplify the work and at the same time achieve a friendly flowering for the next year.



According to tradition, gardeners plant annual flowers on the place freed from tulips. And since many varieties bloom to the coldest, the autumn planting of tulips is often delayed.



At the same time, it is necessary to allocate for bulbs an extensive place in a warm shed or on the veranda. We believe that it is not necessary to transfer bulbs from place to place all the time. Moreover, accidentally left in the ground bulbs bloom perfectly next year.



So, when the tulips have bloomed, arm yourself with a shovel, two buckets, complex fertilizer, egg shells and juniper needles, the smell of which scares away pests.



For convenience of work will not hurt and folding chair. Make it comfortable to dig up tulips. In one bucket, fold the leaves and dried shoots (they can be sent to a compost pit). The other is excavated land. Stir it well, break the lumps.

Put some fertilizer, shells and juniper needles at the bottom of the hole. Examine the excavated bulbs. Damaged and sick bulbs removed, and healthy plant back and fill with soil from the second bucket.



Annuals can be planted on top of tulips. They will not interfere with each other. At the same time, the time required for transplantation is reduced, you do not need to rush with bulbs and remember where which variety was planted.



Even more effort and time is saved if you plant tulips in containers and baskets. There are a number of reasons. First, tulips growing in containers are much easier to dig out of the ground without damaging the bulbs with a shovel. Secondly, this method of planting helps to protect plants from rodents. Third, if your site is poor soil, the use of containers will simplify its improvement.



Tulip bulbs should have time to take root before frost, so that the flowers do not die. If the weather is dry, 14 days after planting the bulbs in the ground, they should be watered well again. At a negative temperature, tulips are better to cover mulches. Then the plants will be able to winter well.