It is wonderful when charming flowers are pleasing to the eye on a personal plot. After the winter, gardeners are especially impatient to quickly see colorful splendor in their summer cottages. Tulips will fully satisfy this desire, blooming in the flower bed one of the first.
Before you admire these messengers of spring, you must properly plant the bulbs of plants. Not everyone knows when to plant tulips in the suburbs, so that they bloom next spring. This should be done from mid to late September. Due to global warming, which has been felt in recent years in this region, the dates are shifting to the first half of October. They put the bulbs on the ground so that they have time to root well, but as a result of a warm autumn they would not have time to sprout. If this happens, then in the spring from such a plant you will not have to wait for flowers. When planting tulips in the suburbs, the temperature of the soil will tell. When it drops to + 10 ° at a depth of 10 cm, then this is the most optimal time to begin work.
After it became clear when to plant tulips in the suburbs, half a month before the selected date they are looking for a suitable place. These flowers are quite hygrophilous, so they will feel good in light soil, well permeable to water. You can’t plant in the lowlands, because in such a place they can vytryat or
freeze out. The place should be well lit by the sun. In the shade or partial shade, the stems will stretch, and the flowers will be small and will lose the juiciness of their colors.
Speaking about when to plant tulips in the Moscow region, it is important to note that it is better to carry out these works in dry weather, since in the rain it is simply not too convenient to do this.
The place is chosen, then you need to prepare the soil. Like most plants, tulips do not like acidic lands, therefore it is lime. This should be done a couple of weeks before planting, so that the fertilizer dissolves and the soil has time to settle. A flower bed is dug on a bayonet of a shovel. Choose weeds and first make a well-rotted compost or humus. Fresh organics cannot be added, since the bulbs can rot. Then lime is poured - a couple of glasses of dolomite flour or chalk, a glass of wood ash and 100 grams of complex fertilizer that does not contain nitrogen. Organics and mineral fertilizers are mixed, the soil is slightly tamped with a shovel and left for 2 weeks for settling.
Preparation of tulips for planting begins with a careful examination of each bulb. If there are sick, moldy, then they are thrown away. From such planting material there will not be full-fledged flowers, moreover, it will still infect and healthy. You can put the bulbs before planting for an hour in a pink solution of potassium permanganate or the drug "Kornevin." Planting tulip bulbs is carried out at a distance of 8-10 centimeters from each other. The depth of embedment on light soils is equal to the 3rd diameter of the bulb and the 2nd to heavy. In order not to damage the bottom of the bulb, it must not be pressed into the ground.
It remains to fill in the pits with light soil, mulch with peat and wait for lush and friendly flowering in early May.