Tulips - harbingers of spring, sunny mood and the opening of the summer season.Bouquets of flowers became a symbol of the main Women's Day March 8.Special love for these colors are experiencing vacationers, it is so nice to see the early spring on his land, as the variety of blooming tulips.
Currently, there are more than three thousand different species and varieties of tulips, however, the most popular are only about 100 species.It is important to not only love, but also to be able to correctly reproduce the tulips.Cultivation and care for them - not such a difficult job, but, as in any other business, it requires the possession of certain skills.Today we'll talk about how to grow these delicate flowers at the site and at home.
Growing tulips in an open ground
select a site for planting flowers, note the following: the flowers do not like direct sunlight and strong drafts.Low places prone to flooding, and are not suitable for planting.Determine the place, make sure that the soil is well fertilized, if necessary, make it about a week before planting the bulbs.
tulip bulbs are planted in the autumn, when the temperature drops to 6-100S.This is about the end of September - early October.Before planting selected healthy bulbs are soaked for 30 minutes in a weak solution of potassium permanganate.The distance between the rows should be about 15 cm, and between about 10 cm bulbs. Care then practically zero.However, if the arid autumn, the bulbs should be sure to water and to protect otzamorozkov covered fir paws.Throughout the winter the bulbs will be able to rest, thus preparing for the flowering period.
When spring comes, the tulips will sprout, and after only a couple of weeks of bloom.At this time you must spend two fertilizing: as soon as the buds and flowers fall off when.Be sure to monitor the moisture content of the soil, as well as periodically to loosen it.
When the leaves turn yellow tulips, comes the time of digging up the bulbs.Once they are removed from the ground, they must be dried in the shade at otkrytomvozduhe (1-2 days).Then the bulbs are placed in boxes and stored in a dark, well-ventilated area.
Thus, you can grow a variety of tulips, cultivation and maintenance of most varieties is no different.Just imagine how beautiful you will have the spring in the country!
Growing tulips at home
Lately very popular cultivation of tulips at home.Just imagine the window snow and frost, and reigns in your room a real beauty, and all because the tulips have blossomed.Cultivation and care in the indoor environment is not very complicated, and you will see for yourself.
If you want to have in February to enjoy the beauty of these flowers, then select for planting low-growing early varieties.Before planting, soak the bulbs in the refrigerator some time to appear shoots.Then plant them in a long box with one or two rows.Of course, the soil should be well fertilized.Make sure that the plants are not in direct sunlight and there was no public drafts.Potted tulips do not like dry air, therefore their leaves several times a day should be sprayed with warm water.Watering moderate, depending on how quickly dries up the land.Once finished flowering, the bulbs should dig, and their subsequent landing exercise now only in the open ground, as again in the indoor environment more than they will not bloom.Certainly dry the bulbs and store them in a cool place until the fall.
Tulips, cultivation and care that you exercise correctly, giving you a real spring beauty.Try to grow them once, you are unlikely to give up the idea.
