Tulip Care: A Must For Spring Gardens

If you love seeing the beautiful blooms of tulips in April and May, then caring for tulips during the growing season in your garden is a top priority for you. He spent good money and spent his time planting new bulbs in the fall. As spring unfolds, you want to see those yellow, red, white, pink, and other tulip flowers. They are waving at you as they stir the breeze to care for them. Check out this article to make sure you take good care of your own tulips.

Tulip flowers are a hardy species, but if you don’t know how to deal with the main challenges, your garden will suffer. These are the main concerns and problems with tulips before flowering.

Fertilize your tulip plants twice a year. The best time to feed tulips is in early spring (before they re-bloom). The best way to feed them is to add a tablespoon of granular fertilizer to the soil around each bulb. This must be done before flowering because feeding the tulips after flowering could cause disease.

Tulips need a lot of water. If your garden gets a lot of rain, nature will take care of the watering. If you live in a very hot area year-round, make sure to water your tulip garden at least once a week.

Watch out for animal pests like rabbits and squirrels. Rabbits eat the green shoots and can destroy the tulip plant so that the flowers do not bloom. Prevent rabbits from eating breakfast in your yard by using a physical fence like chicken wire, a deterrent like cayenne pepper, or non-toxic commercial products like Liquid Fence.

Squirrels can damage the tulip plant by digging and eating tulip bulbs. Protect bulbs by installing netting over bulbs when planting. This will prevent squirrels from reaching the bulbs. Once you have planted the tulip bulbs, sprinkle blood meal on the soil around the tulip buds. You can also install chicken wire over the top of the garden to protect the little shoots as they emerge.

Flights are another problem. Voles are small rodents that dig underground burrows and tunnels. It sees tulip bulbs as food and will eat the bulbs, destroying your tulip garden. Unfortunately, there aren’t many effective ways to get rid of voles.

Larvae are insects that are the main killers of tulips. If the soil in your garden has larvae, use some insecticide or time-release insecticide on the soil around it once or twice a year. Nurseries and home garden centers offer various larval insecticides in granular form that control these pesky insects.

Here is an additional tip:
If you buy potted tulips from a nursery or store, you can plant them outdoors. Remember to plant the tulips as they are in the pot in a sunny spot. You will kill the tulips when you separate them from the potting soil.

Spring care for tulips is not an option. Your garden will thank you and your tulips will greet you every time the breeze blows.