We grow tulips. Care after flowering

The flowering of tulips does not last long, and after a few days beautiful flowers begin to wither, and the flowerbed loses its aesthetics. Even if all tulips are withered , care after flowering is required. Hot and dry weather speeds up this process. Watering, much needed for tulips during flowering, should continue even after the buds fall off. The fact is that for two or three weeks, the bulbs are forming under the ground, and thanks to regular watering they accumulate the necessary amount of nutrients. Many gardeners wonder: "When to cut off the tulips after flowering?" Do not do this. The leaves must be naturally scoured, after which the bulb will be ready for digging.

Tulips have already blossomed, leaving after flowering comes down to several points:

1. Extra nutrition and enhanced watering. As soon as the flower of the tulip fades, carefully remove the flower spike. Over the next two weeks, the tulips are watered and must be fed, as this is the period when the bulbs accumulate nutrients. How to feed tulips after flowering? Absolutely not suitable fertilizers, which include nitrogen and chlorine. For better storage of tulip bulbs, phosphorus and potassium are required. Such fertilizer is brought under the bushes of tulips at the rate of 30-40 grams per square meter. You can use a solution, aquarium or crystalline.

2. Cutting off the leaves. So, the tulips have withered, leaving after flowering is reduced to cutting the leaves. Completely remove them can only after the final yellowing. Premature cutting of leaves causes the bulbs to lag behind in development. In order not to lose a place where tulips grew, experienced gardeners leave a plate indicating the plant variety. Yellow leaves spoil the appearance of the front garden, but this can be corrected by pressing them to the ground with an object.

3. Excavation of bulbs of tulips. So, the tulips have blossomed, the care after flowering is completed, it's time to start digging the bulbs. This procedure is carried out in the last days of June until the second decade of July. Determine the readiness of bulbs simply - one of them is excavated and inspected. The ripe bulb has well-formed roots, brown spots appear on the scales, and the ends of the leaves and stem of the tulip are easily wound on the finger.

When digging out tulips, you should follow the basic rules:

- For digging, you should choose a sunny day, so that the bulbs dry well;

- when harvesting in wet weather, the bulbs must be washed with water and dried;

- shovel should be buried so as not to damage the roots;

- pickling bulbs carried 5% solution of potassium permanganate;

- diseased, damaged and unticked bulbs are subject to culling;

- digging out from the earliest varieties;

To preserve the grades of tulips, large sizes of flowers, resistance to diseases, bulbs should be excavated every year, some varieties can be excavated every two years.