Tulip lovers usually plant their bulbs in the fall. This is considered the surest way to see the plants blooming in the new season.
But some gardeners confidently state that it is possible to get blooming tulips even if they are planted in the spring. The bulbs need to ripen.
How to Prepare Tulips for Planting in Spring
To do this, you need to prepare the tubers, wake them up after hibernation, and then they will ripen for flowering.
1. Before burying tulip bulbs in a flowerbed, they need to be artificially wintered for 4-5 weeks. You can put the tubers in the refrigerator or store them in another way in a room where the air temperature does not rise above 5-7 degrees.
2. Before this, you need to peel the bulbs, remove any damage, discard any rotting specimens, and treat them with fungicides and growth stimulants.
3. After this, you need to choose a date for planting the tubers in the ground.
When to plant tulips
This should be cold soil, that is, you can start immediately after the snow melts. You can also force tulips at home, and then transplant the flowers to the flowerbed with the first warmth.
Care after planting
To begin with, you will need to fight weeds, water the soil moderately, and when the shoots appear, you can add complex fertilizers.
The composition should include nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
When buds appear, the feeding is repeated, and the next one is carried out during flowering.
