It's time to put your tulip bulbs into the refrigerator. Tulips need six to eight weeks of cold temperatures to bloom in the Spring and since we can't guarantee that here in the South, we have to refrigerate our bulbs.
The best time to plant your tulips is late December or early January, so you may not have time to order bulbs from a catalog. You should be able to find them at Wal Mart, Fred's, Lowes, or your local garden centers now. Then put them into the lower vegetable basket of your fridge.
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| These are from Lowes... |
Tulips like well drained soil in an area with full or part sun. I always till in some Black Cow fertilizer, but you can add a general fertilizer instead. Even though the tulip package may say to plant the bulbs six inches deep, it is recommended that we don't plant as deeply here in the South. Five inches should do it.
If you don't have a place in your yard that's suitable for tulips, you can plant them in a pot. Just be sure that the pot has really good drainage.
After planting your tulips, you can over plant them with violets, pansies, or pinks.
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| P. Allen Smith's tulips..... |
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| My tulips...I just need to plant a few hundred more to catch up with P. Allen! |
Love ya'll, Shelli
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