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Storing Tulips
Glenys Rumble
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Can anyone remember what Monty told viewers how to lift and store tulips
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Glenys Rumble
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Last year he said to grow them as annuals. Plant 2 inches deep only, and pull up and bin when flowering over. Choose new colour combinations next time.
He said that for Darwin types - not species
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I do - bedding type tulips don't naturalise like daffodils do, and the flowers tend to get smaller year after year, so I leave them in for a few years then pull them up and compost them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's what I do. If you plant them quite deeply they tend to live longer.
In the wild Tulips go through a very hot and dry summer when they are completely dormant , before starting up again into growth in Autumn. British summers rarely give them this.
If you leave them in the ground for the first year after flowering, and then they do less well next year, I would hoick them out. They are probably on a downhill slide and unlikely to improve back to where they were. Cut your losses.
Thank you all for your suggestions, but I thought Monty Don suggested something about storing them in a way to produce bulblets for the following season. Do you just cut the spent flower heads off, lift them and store them in a dryish compost or an alternative way.
Sorry, I can't remember what he said, didn't listen as I don't want to be bothered with digging them up. Can't get around to everything in my big garden!