When to dig out bulbs of tulips in time?

Tulips - one of the first spring flowers that beautifully enliven the earth, and pleasing the eye with their bright and so different shades.

To ensure that the decorative species of tulips do not degenerate, and the flowers do not grow smaller, experienced gardeners recommend digging the bulbs of the plant every year. Due to this they grow faster, and the bulbs become larger. It should be remembered that children do not usually dig out, but grow several years in one place.

Be sure to not miss the period when you can excavate bulbs of tulips most simply. The leaves of the tulips in this period acquire a light yellow color, and the bulb becomes light brown. In no case should you dig out the plants before this time, because it can damage the bulbs and next year instead of a bright red flower, a small, blind bud can be inserted. It is advisable to use garden forks when digging bulbs of tulips, without damaging them, is rather difficult. If all the same is not without damage, such bulbs should be destroyed, otherwise they often develop a fungus, infecting and healthy.

If it turned out that you remembered, when the foliage of the tulips is completely opal, you can still dig out the bulbs, although it will be quite problematic to find them. Still, it is better to observe the plants and extract them from the ground when you can dig it.

Tulip bulbs, extracted from the ground, are first sorted, separating substandard bulbs. For example, tulips having irregular bulbs damaged by various spots. Most problems can be avoided if one knows how and when to dig out the bulbs of tulips.

Dedicated and sorted plants must be dried. Usually they are stacked in latticed boxes (baskets are also suitable) and are put in a shade under a canopy. Dry bulbs are cleaned from the ground and roots, and then put into the solution of manganese for about half an hour. Prior to planting, the plants should be periodically examined for any apparent disease or possible decay, such flowers must be immediately isolated from healthy plants.

In the process of drying the bulbs, ventilation plays a very important role, the room in which the flowers are located must be ventilated.

Also important is the storage temperature of the excavated plants: they start drying the bulbs at about 25 ^° C, in a month lower to 20 ^° C, in September the temperature should not exceed 17 ^° C.

And what to do when you can not dig out the bulbs of tulips in the summer? In this case, you should leave the tulips to winter in the soil, you do not need to dig them up in the autumn.

It is not recommended to treat plants with chemical preparations, it is better to process potassium permanganate directly before planting, this will be quite enough.

Thus, following the advice of gardeners about when to dig bulbs of tulips, how to store them properly, the better to process, you can achieve good success in breeding even very decorative varieties of these spring flowers.