Autumn Planting Bulbs: Simple Rules and Techniques

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Great effect of little tricks;
First tip:;
Second tip:;
Third tip:;
Tip four:;
Tip five:;

The end of September and the beginning of October is the time of planting many primroses. To facilitate the care of whimsical sissies, use our tips.

Your garden is sure to have room for exquisite and delicate early flowers. Many of them are bulbous. We will tell you about simple rules and techniques that will help you save time and money when working with these plants.

Great effect of little tricks

First tip:

Buying tulips, give preference to varieties of these garden groups:

species: Tulipa kaufmanniana, Tulipa fosteriana, Tulipa greigii;
Darwinian hybrids;
Simple early and Simple late.

Their bulbs can be left in the ground for at least 3 years, a noticeable loss of decorative they are not threatened.

But with the bulbs of varieties of tulips more fastidious groups will have to Tinker: they need to dig out annually and contain up to the autumn planting at the correct temperature.

Second tip:

If you want to plant tulips, daffodils or hyacinths in flower beds with perennials, it is better to give them a place in the second row — in the foreground unsightly skeletons of flowering bulbs will be impossible to disguise.

Planting in plain sight is still possible, but it is more time — consuming and time-consuming: you will have to dig up the bulbs immediately after flowering (and not as it should be-when the leaves wither) and put them in a dry shady place, slightly sprinkled with earth. In their place in the flower garden planted annuals. After the leaves and stems of the excavated plants are completely withered, the bulbs are stored, observing the appropriate temperature conditions for each species.

Third tip:

Moles-a serious danger to flower beds with bulbs. Standard plastic baskets for bulbous these mammals are not a hindrance. But the usual plastic containers that remain from the purchased plants-reliable protection from moles.

Single Tulip bulbs are conveniently planted in containers with a square section of 9×9 cm (and how convenient it is to transport them in boxes!);
Several bulbs can be planted in containers from 10 to 25 cm in diameter.

This method of planting, in addition to protection from moles, has other advantages:

First, it is easy to comply with agricultural machinery (the same annual digging);
Second, every time we plant bulbs in fresh soil;
Third, you can plant early flowers at any place in the mixborder — even in the first row.

Tip four:

If you want to surprise everyone with a variety of bulbous plants, brightness and duration of flowering and at the same time save the area of landings, you can do them by the so-called lasagna method, that is, layer by layer.

Different types of bulbs are planted at different depths. The bottom layer is given a late blooming varieties of tulips, the top — finely onionearly-flowering plants, put the rest on the middle layer.

Tip five:

Bulbs in decorative containers will allow you to create a bright spring song, not only in the flowerbeds, but on the paved areas or the veranda.

And when the plants bloom, the pots can simply be moved to the economic zone and wait for the leaves to finally dry up to dig up the bulbs for storage. Usually they are planted in plastic pots, which are dug into the ground for the winter, and in the spring they are removed and inserted into a decorative container selected in diameter.

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