Planting Tulip Bulbs In Autumn

Spring flowering bulbs bloom at a time when few other flowering plants in bloom. Tulips can often be seen stabbing their new shoots through the snow, and they are often seen in bloom during a late-season snowfall. For this early spring flowering beauties in their proper season, tulip bulbs should be planted at the right time of year. Tulip bulbs planted at different times of the year will not reliably bloom. Many will rot in the ground and never had a single flower.

Plant in season

To tulip flowers bloom in spring, their normal flowering season, tulip bulbs should be planted last fall. Plant them in the fall, when the bulbs begin to appear for sale in garden centers.

Tulips require a "cooling" period of 12 to 16 weeks, so that the lamp "bloom" to activate the development of miniature flower bud in the bulb. Plant tulips in the early fall to the ground freezes in early winter.

Choose a site in full sun

Tulips need full sun to bloom. Place your tulip bulbs, so they get full sun during their flowering season. Many species tulips bloom before deciduous trees have leafed out. This makes it possible to successfully grow tulips under shade trees and so there is sufficient sun is not in other parts of the growing season.

The best types of tulips to plant under deciduous trees that bloom in early to mid spring. Late flowering tulips are not suitable for planting under deciduous trees because they generally bloom after the trees have started to leaf out. Interplant late flowering tulips among the perennials. The tulips are early color in the perennial border and the emerging foliage of perennials will fade tulip foliage to camouflage. It is necessary for the tulip foliage to naturally die in order for them to bloom the following year.

Plant in fertile soil

Improve the soil in the area where you are planting your tulips. Loosen the soil by digging down about 8 to 10 inches with a garden spade. Add one inch of peat moss and a few inches of compost to the surface of the soil and put it under these amendments to be included in the growing bed. Apply 5 tablespoons 10/10/10 fertilizer and 2 cups bone meal for every 10 square feet of growing bed. Scratch it into the soil with a garden claw. Repeat application when the new shoots of tulip bulbs from the ground the following spring.

Proper Planting Procedure

Tulips look best planted in groups of three to five. Space these clumps about 24 inches apart, and the space of the individual lights about 6-8 inches apart in the bushes. Plant tulips so that the bottom of the lamp is about 8 cm below the surface of the soil. A good rule of thumb is to tulip bulbs to plant at a depth which is equal to two times the diameter.