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Spring Flower Garden Maintenance
How do you decide how many bulbs to plant, where and when?
Thinking about planting tulips and daffodils for the spring. I would like a lot. Only really one flower bed in front of this house. There are many places to put them. How do you decide? Very rocky around here. I know that I will have to buy top soil and manure to enhance the soil. When should I plant them and how deep? Any suggestions? First time I've really done any gardening and I am looking for very low maintenance.
If you are doing for the first time, maybe try growing some in a container;
and some without. In this way, you will be able to know which is the best
way for your next round.
Plant outdoors with containers:
You may plant together the tulip bulbs with the pots in the ground;
a shallow trench about 4 inches deep soil; and fill your containers with
fresh loose fine soil and mulch the bulbs with some straws, leaves, or peat
by end November.
You can either enjoy them outdoors; or transplanting them together with the
containers indoors in late winter or early spring. At the room temperature of 20°C;
they will come into full bloom in 15 days.
Sow outdoors or in a greenhouse for indoor display:
Buy fresh bulbs; unpack the bulbs immediately and separate them
into groups according to the colors; or mix if you wish.
Prepare some pots; shallow containers; or baskets. Place some sand
at the base or layer of crocks to prevent rotting. You may add potting
soil; or fibre; or mix.
Put 3 to 4 bulbs in a pot; press your bulbs in it so far that only the
very top shows. Press with your thumb the soil firmly down round
the bulb; and fill the open space up to the edge of the pot and wet
the soil.
Before you buy the bulbs from a store, you have to be sure to select
those first rate bulbs that, are solid and sound. Usually it will come with
a basic planting instruction and the bulbs are packed in a pricked plastic bag.
If you prefer to try sowing them outdoors in open ground without containers;
you can sow spring bulbs in the late November on a frost free
day; and set them in borders, depth about 10 cm. If you are sowing
them in sand ground; then you may plant them deeper. A depth
about 8 cm will be fine if you have heavy ground.
If you are planning to grow tulips for cut flowers, plant them in rows.
Never plant tulip bulbs in the same spot year after year.
Some tips:
You may plant them 5 to 10 cm apart in groups in front of the
perennial flowers or plants; if you have some.
Get beautiful effect with tulips one or two different kinds in a bed;
or plant them in front of evergreens; or put them in groups in front
of the shrubs, the effect will be gorgeous.
Plant a long narrow bed with a combination of two different types of
single early tulips; bronze and yellow; purple and yellow; purple violet
and yellow; rose and white; orange red and white red purple. This
should be some brilliant ideas!
Single early tulips bloom in the end of March to beginning of April,
and the double late tulips mostly bloom in the month of May to June.
Planting tulip bulbs to a place where they will not receive early spring sunlight.
In this way, you can delay their flowering time.
During their growth, don't transplant them everywhere. When the
flowering cycle is disturbed; the tulips will either turn up into unusual
shapes or totally stop blooming.
Tulips love good drainage soil; moderate sunlight; winter-hard to
minus 15°C. When spring is not too wet, the tulips will develop fully.
Before the heavy rain falls, you may cut the flowers and keep them in
a vase indoors. This way you can enjoy them longer.
Remove the flowers once the bloom is over, so that the remaining
strength of the plant will be built on the bulbs instead of going to
the seeds.
Remove the bulbs only after the leaves turned yellowish. Cut off the stems,
the leaves, and the roots. Place the bulbs in dark cool dry
and airy place until the next sowing.
If you keep the bulbs in the ground, they might not be blooming next time
as the bulbs will be rotted with the wet ground and it may invite plant
diseases. If you wish to buy new every year, you may just leave it
in the ground.
Daffodils will bloom much earlier; and they require very low maintenance.
Happy gardening!
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I need spring gardening tips...?
I am primarily interested in "annuals" or some kind of flowers or plants that won't die in the winter ( I live in Chicago ) Some thing low maintenance that won't attract bugs. They don't have to be flowers, could be colorful plants. What are your suggestions?
There's lots of beautiful flowers you can have in your yard that will come back year after year and have color even in winter. Here's some flowers I would plant:
1. Peony
2. Geranium
3. Hibiscus
4. Mums
5. Trumpet Lilies
6. Rudbeckia
These are beautiful flowers of different height and depth of color... It's a great start for a flowerbed... I have a couple of links to share with you to help pick out flowers for your zone...
Good luck : D
