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Only Tulips. This post is only tulips. Only tulips in my beds. Only one shot per tulip.
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We are delighted with our tulips this year. We have been planting blubs for three years and starting to get a nice critical mass of established tulips.
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We also have daffodils and hyacinths. Plus some crocus and a few allium. Those are the spring bulbs. But this is only about the tulips.
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We buy our bulbs mail order in the fall from Holland Bulbs.
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We are rehabilitating some old beds that had been neglected and graveled over for a wider drive way at some point then haphazardly covered with mulch probably right before we bought the house. So typically I get a little mulch then gravel then maybe a little soil then clay when digging out the beds.
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We have a system going where we dig out some new area in the beds around now (May/June). Then we have some red Dahlias that we got from a neighbor we put in for the summer. We dig and add soil and compost when putting in the Dahlias so its easier when we do the bulbs in the fall. I usually have to cart off the gravel I dig up and we replace it with better soil components.
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When we do plant the bulbs we add in some bulb fertilizer (Bulb-tone). Then the following spring we have some more tulips. And we repeat each year.
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The Dahlias are getting out of hand 🙄 more tubers each year that we split up and store in the basement all winter. I am about ready to pass that curse along to someone else 😅 too much work.
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Back to the tulips. We buy an assortment.
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Lots of different colors plus a few fringed varieties and double tulips.
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My wife claims they are all the same when we plant them and you never know what you get until they come up. I mostly run the shovel, wheel barrow, and water so I'm not sure if that is true or she just loses track of what she puts where...
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Fortunately she doesn't read my Hive posts so I can ponder this question out loud 🤔
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Well that the end of the photos so that means the end of my rambling. Thanks for checking out my post