Friday, May 21, 2010

Do you half to dig up tulip blubs befor planting other flowers?

Never cut back the foliage on bulb flowers. The leaves are used to make food to be stored in the bulb for next years growth. If you remove the leaves it reduces the strength of the bulb. If you continue to do it each year the bulbs will be weak and prone to didease, plus the flowers will be poorer.


If you want to plant something else, plant just in front of the tulips. Perennials are best as they are beginning to grow strongly just as tulips are fading. The perennial growth will soon hide the unsightly tulip leaves.


Remember that you should add fertlizer or organic matter to your soil each year to feed all these plants.


There is an alternative where you dig up the bulbs with the foliage and re-plant them elsewhere until the leaves die back.

Do you half to dig up tulip blubs befor planting other flowers?
I never have. I just leave them some room and plant around them.
Reply:Not unless you no longer want the tulip any more.
Reply:No you do not. Tulip are a spring flower if your going to plant annuals then just cut back the tulip and plant your flower. If you want to plant perennials then you will over crowd your tulips and you will want to dig them up and replant them elsewhere.


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