Planting Tulips: Make Sure You Have the Right Soil (compost bin)
No commentsBy Dave Pipitone
When you are planting tulips for next spring’s tulip garden, don’t make the same mistake that I did last year. Making a mistake at planting time in the fall is costly. If you make this mistake, you may as well as buy tulips next spring instead of cutting fresh ones for your own tulip bouquet.
Are you sure that you are putting tulip bulbs in the best soil to grow? If you have doubts about growing tulips as you plan your spring garden, consider these gardening tips.
Let me explain. I love tulips, even though the flower stage is only two to three weeks long from mid-March to late May. Last fall, I planted about 60 purple tulip bulbs in my backyard. I eagerly waited for Spring to come so I could savor those beautiful flowers. The winter was long and cold with more snow falls than in previous years. So, I was ready for Spring to come. But I was surprised. Of the 60 flower bulbs I planted, only one tulip flower grew and blossomed. I couldn’t figure it out. Later in the Spring, I planted my impatiens. When I went to dig up my tulip bulbs, I discovered that they were soft and mushy - like pickled onions.
The wet soil was so saturated that the bulbs became sponges, not flowers! Then, I realized that the clay layer under the top soil caused the problem. The clay layer did not let the water drain so my tulip bulbs were sitting in an underground swimming pool!
Tulips grow best in soil that drains best. The origin of tulips is in Turkey, where the soil is very sandy and porous. When traders began to bring the bulbs to plant tulips in Holland, the sandy soil was just right and many fields became like one flower garden after another.
Before you start planning your tulip garden, make sure to dig down about two feet or more to see what the underlying soil is like. If you have a layer of clay near the surface, dig deeper and replace that clay with rich dark top soil. You can buy a 30 pound bag of dirt from a home improvement center for less than two dollars.
So when you plant tulips, check the soil. Porous dirt is good dirt dirt. And be sure that before your tulip bulbs are secure planted, you know the rest of the planting secrets for the best tulip garden design that will please you next Spring.
Dave Pipitone is hopelessly in love with tulips and nourishes them in his Hope Patch. To get your free 32 page report on how to plant a tulip garden, visit http://www.tulipreview.com
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By Jessica Thomson
Most of us see and know gardening as a hobby but hardly does anyone believe that if every piece of information about gardening is to be mentioned then there would be volumes of pages and infinite number of websites on the subject. Most of the Gardening is a result of someone’s hobby. I done regularly and methodically, gardening can not only be cheap and fun but also very constructive. Some people consider this a break from the monotony of life. The snowy winters cannot stop a genuine and hardworking gardener from enjoying the sight of a green patch of land that he him has developed. Gardening can be indoor as well as outdoor. It is considered to fight stress and to provide relaxation.
The location of the garden is the first and the most important aspect. The location that you have chosen to develop as a garden should receive sunlight everyday for at least 6 hours. The other factors that are of prime importance are the climate, type of soil and the availability of water. After taking all these factors into consideration choose the plants that you are going to sow and grow in your garden.
Gardening can be done in pots or directly in the conditioned soil. Watering the plants is another most important issue. Care should be taken that the excess of water drains off through the holes in the pot. If you think of gardening in the soil around your house then the soil has to be treated and conditioned making it comfortable for gardening. Unnecessary weeds need to be plucked off and fertilizers need to be added to the soil.
The soil can be made fertile with two kinds of fertilizers. One is organic fertilizer and the other is inorganic fertilizers. Nowadays the organic fertilizers are becoming more and more popular.
When one starts gardening the other important issue is controlling the pests and the insects that damage the garden. One has the choice of using the insecticides and pesticides which can be either organic or inorganic. Again it is the organic insecticides and organic pesticides that are becoming more popular.
The choice of plants that you want in the garden could vary a lot depending upon the factors prevailing around. The gardening plants include flowers, vegetables and even desert plants like cactus.
On should practice gardening regularly to make it as productive as possible. Without any concrete proof never trust the neighbor’s advice. Your garden centre can be perfected with the latest garden supplies and garden furniture
Most of us see and know gardening as a hobby but hardly does anyone believe that if every piece of information about gardening is to be mentioned then there would be volumes of pages and infinite number of websites on the subject. Most of the Gardening is a result of someone’s hobby. I done regularly and methodically, gardening can not only be cheap and fun but also very constructive. Some people consider this a break from the monotony of life. The snowy winters cannot stop a genuine and hardworking gardener from enjoying the sight of a green patch of land that he him has developed. Gardening can be indoor as well as outdoor. It is considered to fight stress and to provide relaxation.
The location of the garden is the first and the most important aspect. The location that you have chosen to develop as a garden should receive sunlight everyday for at least 6 hours. The other factors that are of prime importance are the climate, type of soil and the availability of water. After taking all these factors into consideration choose the plants that you are going to sow and grow in your garden.
Gardening can be done in pots or directly in the conditioned soil. Watering the plants is another most important issue. Care should be taken that the excess of water drains off through the holes in the pot. If you think of gardening in the soil around your house then the soil has to be treated and conditioned making it comfortable for gardening. Unnecessary weeds need to be plucked off and fertilizers need to be added to the soil.
The soil can be made fertile with two kinds of fertilizers. One is organic fertilizer and the other is inorganic fertilizers. Nowadays the organic fertilizers are becoming more and more popular.
When one starts gardening the other important issue is controlling the pests and the insects that damage the garden. One has the choice of using the insecticides and pesticides which can be either organic or inorganic. Again it is the organic insecticides and organic pesticides that are becoming more popular.
The choice of plants that you want in the garden could vary a lot depending upon the factors prevailing around. The gardening plants include flowers, vegetables and even desert plants like cactus.
On should practice gardening regularly to make it as productive as possible. Without any concrete proof never trust the neighbor’s advice. Your garden centre can be perfected with the latest garden supplies and garden furniture
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