Tulips are a favorite of many spring primroses that delight people after boring long winters with a bright palette of colors and unusual shapes. In my garden, both simple and varietal tulips grow, and my love extends to everyone, regardless of type and color.
From the experience of growing tulips, I clearly understood that they need care and attention not only during the flowering and growing season. In order to give the plants the opportunity in subsequent years to bloom luxuriantly and amaze others with beauty, the dug out bulbs also need proper and careful care.
I understand that flower beds with tulips that have faded look a little sad and untidy. That is why many are trying to sow such places with bright annuals as soon as possible. If you do this, you can quickly lose many varieties of tulips. After all, annuals need frequent and abundant watering, and this is very harmful to tulip bulbs.
What do I do after all the tulips have faded?
When the inflorescences fade, it is advisable to remove them. In case you want to try to breed flowers with seeds, then you can leave a few stems with faded inflorescences for the seeds to ripen. It is also advisable to remove dried leaves and stem over time, I leave a very small piece of the stem so as not to lose the location of the bulb.
If the weather is very hot, then to help the bulbs, they need to be watered occasionally for another 15-20 days after flowering. In order for the bulbs to ripen better and give new healthy offspring, I feed them with potassium and phosphorus. You can also add some wood ash to the soil.
Depending on the weather, I dig up the bulbs in the last week of June or early next month. At this time, the underground tulip family still does not have time to go deep into the ground (this is if I have not transplanted flowers for 2-3 years).
After the bulbs have been removed from the ground and arranged into varieties, they must be checked for rot or mold, and specimens damaged during digging should be set aside. Then I dry the healthy bulbs for 4-5 days in the shade.
Next, I divide the dried future planting material into groups depending on the size, clean it from the adhering earth and lower it for 20 minutes in a pinkish manganese solution. Then I dry them again in a ventilated gazebo.
It is necessary to plant bulbs in the ground at the end of September - mid-October.
An important point is that in order to preserve varieties of new hybrids, for example, terry, parrot or green-colored, they must be dug out annually. Red early and simple late varieties, as well as tulips of Kaufman, Foster, Greig, Triumph and Darwin hybrids can do without transplanting for 3-4 years.
It is not at all difficult to ensure that your garden is decorated with beautiful tulips in spring: give them a little care and attention, and they will surely reciprocate you.
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