Do any of you plant tulips or fall bulbs?

JOCCO

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Do you get a few at the store? Is it something the Mrs.does? Or do you go wild and order hundreds from a bulb company? Guess with me I been trending toward the later. The Mrs. likes them in the spring but seems to prefer me planting them.
 
There is a place in town that grows tulips in greenhouse. they sell cut flowers to many places that make flower arrangements. They get their bulbs from Holland and store them in a cooler. Every week they bring out a new batch of bulbs, plant them in very little dirt, only bottoms are covered. They have to use bulbs of a certain size to get tall enough tulips, 14-16 inches I think. They also sell cut tulips that may be seconds, around 12 inches tall.

The rest they pitch. They grow tulips up until about mother's day.

So to answer your question. It really doesn't matter when you plant them. If the ground is cold, they will remain dormant. If you store them in a cool place, plant them in the spring. I would plant them now, that way they will be early bloomers.

BYW this past spring we went to the tulip place and they gave us the shorter tulips. We planted about 400 of them on a sandy hill side in gravel pit. We call it tulip hill. Be posting pics this spring if they blooms.

We planted hundreds of surprise lilies on another hill side, surprise hill

Planted hundreds of rose of Sharon's on another hill side, rose hill.

Looking forward to a colorful time next year.
geo
 
My wife planted tulips and daffodils about 2 weeks ago. The ground hasn't frozen yet so the squirrels will probably transplant the tulips but leave the daffodils. We have tried putting a wire mesh over the tulip bulbs but squirrels still eat the shoot as it is emerging.

JimB
 
Traditionally tulips are planted in the fall and left to bloom through the spring and early summer, when the plant dies down you dig the bulbs back up and put in a cool dry place until fall again. I usually just buy a package of bulbs and plant them( about 3 weeks ago. the ground here will soon be frozen over top, I expect an array of colorful tulips around the end of April and early May.
 
Yes, just came in from putting some in the ground. This year I'm using a bulb auger on a heavy-duty cordless drill (can only get 50 or so bulbs in on a charge, depending on how tough the soil is).

I don't like planting bulbs repeatedly, so I've given up on tulips except for the species ones that last forever. If someone in your house likes cut spring flowers, put a row of fragrant narcissus of various flowering dates in your vegetable garden -- you'll be set for many years with one planting.
 
I use to plant some but have gotten away from it.
We have to put tulips and hyacinths bulbs in the refrigerator from early November to January as it does not get cold enough here for the bulbs to get their chilling hours they require. We then plant them in January for spring flowers.
 
we have planted 1000s in the past, sometimes 600-800 a year, tulips and daffidils. the tulips are almost all gone but the daffidils are going strong. i see there is perinial tulips now, havent tried them. use a bulb auger on cordless drill. hard to find help to get job done, havent planted in couple years. plant in road ditch, we get lots of compliments and people taking pictures. tulips come up first, then daffidils. usually buy bulbs at menards, late in season, when clearence priced. my wife likes to look at them but not plant
 
I bought some really nice Tulip bulbs from the big box store. Planted per the directions. 1st year about half came up. Second year a couple. Third none. So much for that.
 

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