Planting tulips: care and tips

Plant Tulips: Planting Time and Location

The tulip bulbs are in the autumn (between late October and early November) when the soil is already a bit colder. In the spring, we can then look forward to the first flowering flowers.
Although there are different varieties of tulips, but all tulips love the sun and therefore need one sunny location.
What the soil conditions Tulips are not demanding. The tulip bulbs may prefer one dry and well drained soilbut if this is not there, just sand can be mixed under the bottom of the onions.
Waterlogging should still be prevented, because otherwise the onions will rot quickly.

Planting tulips: how it works!

Hobby gardeners have it easy with the tulip: The tulip bulbs should with the top up and twice as deep as they are tall. At a Distance of seven centimeters you can not go wrong, but the spring messengers are particularly beautiful, if you put them and planted at irregular intervals.

Plant Tulips: The Right Care

Need tulips enough water and especially during the flowering season. When pots should be taken to ensure that the water runs well.
As soon as the Tulip blossom wiltsit has to be cut off. Leaves and stems, however, should not be removed prematurely, so that the tulip still has enough strength for the next spring.
fertilizer Can be used at the beginning of the first flowering when the first leaves have emerged.

Plant Tulips: Hibernate properly

Tulips in the flowerbed can easily overwinter with proper planting and care. Things are different with the tulips in pots or flower boxes. Since we do not just want to enjoy our onion flowers for a year, we have to protect the bulbs from the harsh winter months.

The tulip bulbs must therefore be dug out early and placed in tulip shells. In addition, proper storage is important: the flower bulbs need one dry and dark place for your hibernation ? for example, the cellar.

Plant Tulips: Two types of propagation

Tulips can talk about the sowing (generative) or by daughter bulbs (vegetative) multiply. Propagation over seeds takes a long time and requires a lot of patience. It works easier with the daughter onions, which grow in mother onions and peel off after a while. If the daughter onion is reset, it can create a new tulip.

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