Let’s Welcome Spring with Tulips!

One of the most popular spring time flower is the tulip. You only need to have a bit of space to plant the underground part in the fall. Then just wait for those bulbs to grow into bright, sunny flowers that sign the coming of spring.

Tulip comes on many shapes and sizes and their wonderful colors bring happiness to any garden. Tulip 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 tulip need a cold period when they are inactive and resting between their displays. Otherwise, chill the underground part in the refrigerator six to eight weeks before planting. When you transfer them to the ground, make sure you choose somewhere cool and deep, otherwise they will heat up to quickly and might fail to flower.

You should confirm you choose the best quality tulip underground part for successful tulip growing. If you fertilize the planting every season and plant tubers every few years, the results should be good.

Planting Tulip

Before planting your bulbs, grind the ground well to about a foot in depth. Work in some manure, peat moss and compost if the soil is sandy and heavy. Wood fragments and bone meal are also good plant foods. You should use a couple of cups for every twenty bulbs. Planting depth depend on the soil but usually four to five inches is perfect for tulips growing. Make sure you place the bulb’s pointed end first into the ground. Plant them about six inches away from each other because tulips look nicer in a group than separately. When you have planted the bulbs, water the ground well to settle the soil around them. Please make sure that you know about the best soil for planting this flower. In this case, sandy soil is demanded to be best type. Also, it is important to pay attention to the good drainage since it becomes the essential point. Watering the plant early when the buds are rising can enhance the beauty of your tulips, making the stems taller and the heads bigger.

Caring for Growing Tulips

If the weather is severe, you should protect the growing tulips after the first ice, with the good covering of grass ends, pine bought, leaves and straw. Remove this cover in early spring. If the weather is not too bad, the tulips won’t need protection.

If you don’t cut all your tulips for an indoor display, you need to cut them when you notice them dying because seed pods will take food that would then go to the underground part for the following year’s tulips growing well, this is an important step.

Tulip diseases

There are a number of diseases, which can effect tulips. Disease causes brown spots on the leaves and a tulip suffering with disease will often go dull after a couple of weeks. The flowers will go wilting and become brown and gray. Infected bulbs should be burned so the disease doesn’t spread.

Gray bulb rot can occur if the underground part is under ground for too much time. If this happens in your tulip growing, the underground part will become too moist to rise above the ground and your tulip will sink. Crown rot causes the bulb and flowers to die but this is quite a rare problem in tulip growing.

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