Sadie recently decided (and quite out of the blue, I might add) that she would very much like to plant tulips. I love to garden but have never endeavored to plant bulbs. I know nothing about it. So we looked it up and found this video on ehow.com.
We all watched it together and went out to purchase our tulip bulbs and supplies for planting at Home Depot.
Then we got to planting. We dug a hole 3-4 times as deep as the bulbs were wide (yes, we measured with a ruler) and mixed in our compost with the existing topsoil.
Then we set the tulip bulbs about 4 inches apart so that they will sprout in a clump shape rather than an unnatural looking line. We skipped the chicken wire cage as we have never seen a squirrel in our neighborhood and are fairly confident they will stay where we put them. We shall see! Hopefully in the spring we will have parrot tulips that look like this in our front yard:
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I love tulips. I have never successfully planed bulbs though. Can’t wait to see how they turn out!
I love spring tulips.
So happy! 