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Digging up perfectly good tulips (was Moving tulips)
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B & J wrote: Wait until all the foliage has died back before digging, but be sure to mark the area so that you won't lose track of where they are. After they die back, dig up the bulbs, and you can either replant immediately into the new destination, or you can store them in a cool, dry place until September or October and plant them then. John Actually, that brings up a different question. I live in an older house with "established" landscaping -- which means, basically, that it was doing fine when I moved in. Both I and my wife work long hours and really didn't get interested in gardening until recently; our "gardening" consisted mostly of cutting back shrubs so they didn't block paths and mowing the yard. Now we have gotten interested in gardening, mostly because of a weekend place we got. I am at the putter about and play with easy stuff stage... One of the things we have at our place are a couple of patches of tulips. They do *extremely* well -- pop up every year, seem to get thicker every year, and the patch has been slowly enlarging itself. The only thing that hurts the tulips are some deer that live in a nearby park, who have ravaged all the yards in the neighborhood because of a tough winter. This spring, a friend of mine came over and saw the tulips, or what was left of them after the deer had their way. He said "You know, you really need to dig them up every couple of years and replant them." I said, "No kidding," but thought "Wait a minute, these things are doing great. This sounds like a great case of fixing something that isn't broken." Then I read a little, and have seen this advice a couple of times. So.... Do I really need to dig up a patch of tulips that has been going great guns for 15 years and replant them in the same place? Somehow that just doesn't seem right. billo |
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