I suggest putting down two inches of peat moss before you turn over the soil. That way you will get some organic matter down around the roots. Also, a long handled shovel will save your back. The better prepared the soil the more likely the bulbs will come back the second year. Garnish the finished plot with granular fertilizer and colored mulch.
This only works in a bare plot- not like most people's with other perennials where you want to group 5 to 7 tulips to peek up in the spring in between your existing plants. I learned a great trick with a 4 inch diameter x 18 inch long piece of plastic PVC pipe. Loosen soil a bit, drive down the plastic cylinder (I whack gently w shovel sometimes) pull it out with the soil still in and put your bulb in the empty space at LEAST 6" deep if you don't want them eaten by squirrels or if you do want them to last several years ....tap soil out of the pipe back in place after a little bulb food on top and tamp down... My grandfather did this trick to quickly make deep holes without interrupting roots of other plants in the garden and it works great as long as u don't have heavy clay soil. In which case u need to amend anyway w peat and sand and compost if.want tulips to show yr. after yr. ....too shallow and they rot/freeze/get eaten. A lot of work the first yr. but done right will give u yrs. of blooms!
We would say if you have deer, moles, voles, moose, elk and too many squirrels that it may be best not to plant tulips. Get into the wide world of daffodils. Nothing touches daffodils.
Thank you for this video I planted bulbs this weekend and it took me 30 minutes to do 50 bulbs I had some issues as I dug there was a lot of rocks I had to clean up but I did 25 bulbs than I have my rose bush in the middle and 25 on the other side I'm hoping they look fantastic
So it needs to be soaked in water for a few hours once ya get it, or can ya just break it up and add a lill water if its rather fresh and already moist
Ok sooooo I did that. On one side I planted individually and on the other I planted like you did… and on the side with your method I'd say only 10% of what I put in are sprouting...
Did you cover it with 2 times it's maximum bulb height ? And is the ground well drained ? There is totally no info in this video. Except dress nice when planting ;-) I also plant them this way, but i blend the mix my self. So the tulips that have the less bulbs go first. And after that i fill up with the other color/tulip. I do not only remove top soil, but also a bit more and put compost + something that makes the ground slightly acid (Ph 6.5) in it. And make it well drained. Put in the bulbs (Warning: All exactly same size, like in the video !) and add 2.5 times the maximum width of the bulb on top of it. Different sizes need different heights. Good luck...
I have a lot of shale, maybe 5 inches of natural top soil here in pa. I use a post hole digger and dig down 8 inches. But the frost pushes the shale up into the flower bed. It really sucks. After two seasons the flower bed is all shale again. It's fight I can't win . Every other year I'm out there with buckets of shale popping up that must be dug out.
Ah, I'm awaiting delivery of 100 tulip bulbs in the next week or two. I got excited until I realised that I've got clay soil in my back garden. It's going to be a pain in the neck. She's lucky to have such good soil.
Exactly what I was thinking-- even in a flower bed I've used for years my clay soil sets up like concrete sometimes and takes a lot of chopping when I dig. And yes, I add organic material and mulch it every year.
I feel ya. Abundance of sticky hard yellow clay here. I just dig the mess out in the bed and replace with good. Luckily, we have horses so we do have manure lol.
You can amend it to break it up. That's all I have here too. Luckily, I have an abundance of horse manure but I mix it with other stuff. If the plant has a shallow root system, I just replace it all together.
Watch commercials on UA-cam with awareness and some healthy skepticism. Here she advises planting only 5 inches deep. Well, yeah, if you want them to be less likely to grow and bloom the following season. This advice is a good way to sell more tulip bulbs. What I know is that most sites will tell you that the deeper you plant, the more likely they'll re-bloom the following year, and they usually say to plant considerably deeper than 5 inches. What I don't know for sure, but have a huge hunch, is that tulips are hybridized to NOT rebloom. However, Darwin tulips are said to rebloom with greatest consistency. In the old days, you planted tulips and they bloomed year after year. Good luck with today's tulips. Do research. Buy Darwins and plant deeper, following fertilizer recommendations.
A few quick replies. 5 inches down to top of bulb is perfect depth for planting tulips. She may have missed this detail by accident. Tulips are never hybridized to "NOT rebloom" Tulip hybridization is driven by quality of color, quality of flower, type of flower, how long the flower lasts when flowering, what the leaves look like when it grows, how disease resistant the bulb is, how much offsets each bulb produces(offsets are the future bulbs and bulbgrowers like bulbs that will also produce more bulbs). In addition the qualities that a cut tulip flower grower wants also drive the desired characteristics of a tulip. A tulip that when forced shows its bud just above the leaves is one of many things a cut tulip growers wants. In fact most of the genetics is being driven what cut tulip growers want for forcing tulips in greenhouse for cutflowers. The market for producing tulip bulbs for the garden os dwarfed by bulbs being produced for forcing for cutflowers. I'm not sure in the old days that tulips were any better than nowadays. Evryone has a grandma who has had a single tulip or two blooming in the same place for years but that is the exception. It probably is in just the right spot, with just the right amount of moisture, sunlight, soil quality, etc. The thing that kills a lot of bulbs is too much moisture when they are dormant during summer.They prefer to be bone dry when they are dormant. Yes the fancier tulips like parrots, double flowering, etc , tulips that people really love has flowers that take a tremndous amount of energy from the bulbs during flowering. The bulb the follwing year simply cannot charge itself up again. Rememebr bulbgrowers in the netherlands cut the flower off after only a few days so all growing enrgy goes back down into producing larger bulbs for the follwoing year. When you plant tulips in the garden you want them to flower as long as possible. That being said there are some types of tulips Darwin Hybrids, Fosteriana's and Greigeii that can come back if you let foliage dieback for 10 weeks after flowering and keep area dry during dormancy during summer. Even if you did this and say they flowered in April and you had a heat wave of 80 degree weather in middle of may that means the tulip would have only had a six week "re-charging" season after flowering. An eight week "re-charging" season is better than 6 weeks. 10 weeks is better than eight weeks. The first year after planting the tulip will flower perfectly. After that things are under the control of weather and site conditions. I don't know of anyone who can control both of these perfectly. Fertilizer should be used very carefully and it can help but can also increase disease pressure in the garden. So I have lightly touched some of the points in your statement that i hope explain things a little better. Happy to answer any specific questions you might have or anything that may still be unclear even after i tried to explain them here.
I heard tulips pull themselves down to their desired depth over a few years, sometimes up to 60 cm/2 ft. Maybe it's better to plant lasting varieties like Darwin hybdrids deeper, but some varieties prefer to be lifted and stored in a dry place over the summer months in humid climates, so you shouldn't plant them too deeply. Look for information online on which varieties rebloom more reliably.
@@annasophia7977 I don't remember where I got this information from, but here's a good explanation: laidbackgardener.blog/2017/09/20/how-bulbs-plant-themselves/
I honestly thought the exact same thing! I'm watching her and simultaneously looking out my window at our "red clay dirt" wondering, "WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SHE - with that beautiful dirt? She must be in Maine, somewhere, LOL."
Why do Tulips bulbs look like onions....... where the hell she get so many from....can you buy them on line..... the places I go to here in.... DT.....don't have nothing I want to grow me some big fat beautiful ass flowers next year 2018.....I know this is an old video but can I get some infor......from some real growers......
Lisa, you can order your bulbs online at colorblends.com :) Plant them this fall and have a beautiful garden in 2018! Visit our website for more information about planting.
I suggest putting down two inches of peat moss before you turn over the soil. That way you will get some organic matter down around the roots. Also, a long handled shovel will save your back. The better prepared the soil the more likely the bulbs will come back the second year. Garnish the finished plot with granular fertilizer and colored mulch.
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Donald MacLeay what do you expect. She’s using a piece of plywood lol.
Thank you so much for the awesome advice!!
To plant in arcs in my lawn, I used a reciprocating saw to cut divots into the turf, into which I inserted the bulbs.
Wow! You have the most incredible soil in your yard that is perfect for these incredible tulips.
exactly, and its so easy with her soil
This only works in a bare plot- not like most people's with other perennials where you want to group 5 to 7 tulips to peek up in the spring in between your existing plants. I learned a great trick with a 4 inch diameter x 18 inch long piece of plastic PVC pipe. Loosen soil a bit, drive down the plastic cylinder (I whack gently w shovel sometimes) pull it out with the soil still in and put your bulb in the empty space at LEAST 6" deep if you don't want them eaten by squirrels or if you do want them to last several years ....tap soil out of the pipe back in place after a little bulb food on top and tamp down... My grandfather did this trick to quickly make deep holes without interrupting roots of other plants in the garden and it works great as long as u don't have heavy clay soil. In which case u need to amend anyway w peat and sand and compost if.want tulips to show yr. after yr. ....too shallow and they rot/freeze/get eaten. A lot of work the first yr. but done right will give u yrs. of blooms!
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We would say if you have deer, moles, voles, moose, elk and too many squirrels that it may be best not to plant tulips. Get into the wide world of daffodils. Nothing touches daffodils.
Absolutely me too exited watching the way you planted your Tulips , enjoy watching and thank you
Thank you for this video I planted bulbs this weekend and it took me 30 minutes to do 50 bulbs I had some issues as I dug there was a lot of rocks I had to clean up but I did 25 bulbs than I have my rose bush in the middle and 25 on the other side I'm hoping they look fantastic
Soooo, how'd they turn out (LOL)? :)
Where is the after video with the flowers in the spring?
Yessssssssssa!!!!!!!👍🏽🌱
They should have edited the video and shown the exact same patch as the last shot for half a minute...
My thoughts exactly! Wouldn’t that make more sense
Agreed!
I bought also bulbs from colorblends and they are really nice and healthy
So it needs to be soaked in water for a few hours once ya get it, or can ya just break it up and add a lill water if its rather fresh and already moist
So, how did it turn out? Did 100 bulbs flower?
I’m a guy and I love my queen of night bulbs!
May I ask you where did u order your bulbs
Hi Juanita, you can order bulbs here: www.colorblends.com/Wholesale-Flowerbulbs/All-Spring-Flowering-Bulbs
Ok sooooo I did that. On one side I planted individually and on the other I planted like you did… and on the side with your method I'd say only 10% of what I put in are sprouting...
Did you cover it with 2 times it's maximum bulb height ?
And is the ground well drained ?
There is totally no info in this video. Except dress nice when planting ;-)
I also plant them this way, but i blend the mix my self. So the tulips that have the less bulbs go first. And after that i fill up with the other color/tulip.
I do not only remove top soil, but also a bit more and put compost + something that makes the ground slightly acid (Ph 6.5) in it. And make it well drained. Put in the bulbs (Warning: All exactly same size, like in the video !) and add 2.5 times the maximum width of the bulb on top of it. Different sizes need different heights.
Good luck...
I have a lot of shale, maybe 5 inches of natural top soil here in pa. I use a post hole digger and dig down 8 inches. But the frost pushes the shale up into the flower bed. It really sucks. After two seasons the flower bed is all shale again. It's fight I can't win . Every other year I'm out there with buckets of shale popping up that must be dug out.
You need to make a raised garden bed. Use 2x10 wood.
www.almanac.com/content/how-build-raised-garden-bed
ua-cam.com/video/_VptBIJ_Y-o/v-deo.html
good tip. I'm Swedish and the american's always appear so over the top. she was very watchable though
Spartan yup all dressed up to Work in the Garden...Not here in germany
Very true haha
She's a robot. Most of us would have a pistol on each hip, a cigar in our mouth, and some fried chicken in each hand while planting tulips.
What is the website that you order your bulbs from in the neatherlands?
Deanna, if you are in the US, check out colorblends.com. We import our bulbs from the Netherlands.
That's a very quick way to plant tulips I always plant tulips into pots so I am a bit slower in plant the bulbs
I have 1200 spring bulbs on the way. I was wondering if Julie would like to come and help me plant them. She'd certainly brighten up my bed!
Which one? /s
I wish you ship to Canada. I wanted to order bulbs from you only to find you only ship to US states.
great if you have good soil, but I am still trying to improve our clay soil.
Wow she Amazing!
Ah, I'm awaiting delivery of 100 tulip bulbs in the next week or two. I got excited until I realised that I've got clay soil in my back garden. It's going to be a pain in the neck. She's lucky to have such good soil.
Exactly what I was thinking-- even in a flower bed I've used for years my clay soil sets up like concrete sometimes and takes a lot of chopping when I dig. And yes, I add organic material and mulch it every year.
I feel ya. Abundance of sticky hard yellow clay here. I just dig the mess out in the bed and replace with good. Luckily, we have horses so we do have manure lol.
Andrian Harsono yup ...Same here...you have to wait for a good Rain.100 bulbs a nightmare if the ground is dry 😥😥😥😥
You can amend it to break it up. That's all I have here too. Luckily, I have an abundance of horse manure but I mix it with other stuff.
If the plant has a shallow root system, I just replace it all together.
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Watch commercials on UA-cam with awareness and some healthy skepticism. Here she advises planting only 5 inches deep. Well, yeah, if you want them to be less likely to grow and bloom the following season. This advice is a good way to sell more tulip bulbs. What I know is that most sites will tell you that the deeper you plant, the more likely they'll re-bloom the following year, and they usually say to plant considerably deeper than 5 inches. What I don't know for sure, but have a huge hunch, is that tulips are hybridized to NOT rebloom. However, Darwin tulips are said to rebloom with greatest consistency. In the old days, you planted tulips and they bloomed year after year. Good luck with today's tulips. Do research. Buy Darwins and plant deeper, following fertilizer recommendations.
A few quick replies. 5 inches down to top of bulb is perfect depth for planting tulips. She may have missed this detail by accident. Tulips are never hybridized to "NOT rebloom" Tulip hybridization is driven by quality of color, quality of flower, type of flower, how long the flower lasts when flowering, what the leaves look like when it grows, how disease resistant the bulb is, how much offsets each bulb produces(offsets are the future bulbs and bulbgrowers like bulbs that will also produce more bulbs). In addition the qualities that a cut tulip flower grower wants also drive the desired characteristics of a tulip. A tulip that when forced shows its bud just above the leaves is one of many things a cut tulip growers wants. In fact most of the genetics is being driven what cut tulip growers want for forcing tulips in greenhouse for cutflowers. The market for producing tulip bulbs for the garden os dwarfed by bulbs being produced for forcing for cutflowers. I'm not sure in the old days that tulips were any better than nowadays. Evryone has a grandma who has had a single tulip or two blooming in the same place for years but that is the exception. It probably is in just the right spot, with just the right amount of moisture, sunlight, soil quality, etc. The thing that kills a lot of bulbs is too much moisture when they are dormant during summer.They prefer to be bone dry when they are dormant. Yes the fancier tulips like parrots, double flowering, etc , tulips that people really love has flowers that take a tremndous amount of energy from the bulbs during flowering. The bulb the follwing year simply cannot charge itself up again. Rememebr bulbgrowers in the netherlands cut the flower off after only a few days so all growing enrgy goes back down into producing larger bulbs for the follwoing year. When you plant tulips in the garden you want them to flower as long as possible. That being said there are some types of tulips Darwin Hybrids, Fosteriana's and Greigeii that can come back if you let foliage dieback for 10 weeks after flowering and keep area dry during dormancy during summer. Even if you did this and say they flowered in April and you had a heat wave of 80 degree weather in middle of may that means the tulip would have only had a six week "re-charging" season after flowering. An eight week "re-charging" season is better than 6 weeks. 10 weeks is better than eight weeks. The first year after planting the tulip will flower perfectly. After that things are under the control of weather and site conditions. I don't know of anyone who can control both of these perfectly. Fertilizer should be used very carefully and it can help but can also increase disease pressure in the garden. So I have lightly touched some of the points in your statement that i hope explain things a little better. Happy to answer any specific questions you might have or anything that may still be unclear even after i tried to explain them here.
I heard tulips pull themselves down to their desired depth over a few years, sometimes up to 60 cm/2 ft. Maybe it's better to plant lasting varieties like Darwin hybdrids deeper, but some varieties prefer to be lifted and stored in a dry place over the summer months in humid climates, so you shouldn't plant them too deeply. Look for information online on which varieties rebloom more reliably.
Where did you find this info? Thank you
@@tim_koch14 did you read this somewhere? Thank you.
@@annasophia7977 I don't remember where I got this information from, but here's a good explanation: laidbackgardener.blog/2017/09/20/how-bulbs-plant-themselves/
beautiful black soil
Can tulip grow in pune? and which season .
Yes, tulips can grow in Pune, India. You would plant in the fall and the flowers would bloom in the spring.
Can i put my tulip plant in the ground
Linda, can you tell us a little more about your tulip plant?
I did. (In the fall or early spring, I cant remember).
The tulips and the crocuses and the daffodils all bloomed.
Last year I planted Tulips at Texas. This year I planting Tulips at California.
Placing chicken wire over your soil and then mulch will keep rodents and squirrels out of your bulbs .
hi! In your country, growing tulips is easy. But, that's difficult in my country.
Can you plant bulbs in spring?
no, tulip bulbs must be planted in the fall
You can take your chances and it may work, early, depending on your winter.
Nice
Beautiful good luck
Why not put the soil into a wheelbarrow ?
Great idea!! ...
Wow!. engaging
good
It's very beautiful flowers. I thought it's a plastic flower.
Next up, how to use a shovel without damaging your spine
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Her method works but why such a focus on saving time? Isn't gardening a labor of love?
This is true but a lot of people wants something that's goes quickly.
Phototropism versus geotropism
That's some nice dirt
I honestly thought the exact same thing! I'm watching her and simultaneously looking out my window at our "red clay dirt" wondering, "WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SHE - with that beautiful dirt? She must be in Maine, somewhere, LOL."
and I can pant 99 tulips in less than 30 minutes.
The world hadn't waited for this video .
Rainer, that's impressive! Do you use an auger? We hope that you enjoy planting your tulips bulbs. Happy Spring!
what? No Bone Meal? Booring! and what about showing those "amaising colors in the spring?? (as you say) in your video?
Awesome...new supporter here..all d best..stay tuned..support as I did😊❤️👍
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What was so special about it?
I could just barely hear the dialog.
Why do Tulips bulbs look like onions....... where the hell she get so many from....can you buy them on line..... the places I go to here in.... DT.....don't have nothing I want to grow me some big fat beautiful ass flowers next year 2018.....I know this is an old video but can I get some infor......from some real growers......
Lisa, you can order your bulbs online at colorblends.com :) Plant them this fall and have a beautiful garden in 2018! Visit our website for more information about planting.
I just bought a 100 from a nursery in Rock Island, Tenn
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I think 3 minutes not 30 lol
Too bad they'll all be eaten by evil squirrels