Tulips are considered early spring flowers. They are decorated with flower beds from mid-April to early June. Care of flowers is quite simple, but has its own characteristics. Correct transplant tulips will provide high-quality planting material for the next year, to preserve and enhance the valuable properties of the rare varieties of flowers.
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When transplanted tulips
Timing Tulips digging tubers installed in strict accordance with their life cycle when the plant part in the resting phase.
In terms of digging varieties of flowers may vary. Flowering defined quality characteristics, the local climate and weather conditions. Early and medium varieties that wither in early May, to prepare for the next season may be at the end of the month, and later - in early July.
quiescent phase is determined by the following features:
- end of flowering;
- faded and yellowing stalks and leaves;
- lack of rooting.
Before digging watering plants completely stopped, so as not to provoke the emergence of the young roots. Skipping required timing seriously degrades planting material.
It is important that the bulbs when digging the weather was dry and windy.
The ground plant tulips autumn when the ground temperature is below + 10 ° C. Compliance with this requirement is necessary in order to plant the tubers are preserved until the next year. At high temperature soil tulip bulbs will not in time for young plants, because of which the first frosts ruin plant.
And preparation for planting tulips
To achieve an abundant flowering tulips in the year following their digging tubers should produce a number of necessary preparatory work:
- Release the bulb from the soil, the husk.
- Culled sick and damaged plants.
- Separate subsidiaries are small bulbs from the parent.
- Filter tubers for future planting caliber.
- To disinfect a solution of potassium permanganate (10 liters of water - 1 g of powder).
- Thoroughly dried in a dark ventilated room.
- Provide storage to fall in a dry, warm place.
In the fall of the place chosen for the flowers. It should be upbeat, uncovered during the spring snowmelt.
Soil fertilized with ash, cut grass, humus and dig. In a well-fertilized soil the plants can be planted in the same place.
Before the landing work on prepared beds are made grooves to a depth of 10 cm. The distance between them should be at least 13-15 cm.
At the right time the tubers are planted in the ground, and sprinkle. Experienced growers are advised to first put the small bulbs and just a week later - caliber. This should provide a springtime friendly shoots. Frost flower bed from above, you can hide fallen trees, fallen leaves or dry grass.
If done correctly, the spring immediately after the snow and warm sunshine of the earth, there will be the same germs of tulips that will delight in the beautiful future with selected colors.
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