Hi All

I planted some red tulips in troughs last autumn
all flowered this year
Q. what do I do now

TIA


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DB001
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DB001 wrote:
I planted some red tulips in troughs last autumn
all flowered this year
Q. what do I do now

I think you're meant to take out the stem but leave the leaves till they die
off (so the bulb has enough strength to grow again next year). Then I
suppose it depends on what you want to do with the troughs - for tulips I
leave mine in the ground, but you may want to empty your trough out for
winter planting, so I guess you could lift the bulbs and put them away until
you are ready to replant them in the autumn (would stop them rotting if it's
not well drained)

I think as long as you don't pull the leaves off now before they have had a
chance to recoup some energy, it doesn't really matter /what/ you do with
them.

(my black-ish tulips are still growing well - apart from my 4 year old
picked all the flowers off to feed to the chickens, except for 1 poor
lonely flower hiding under the day-lily)

wrote:
DB001 wrote:
I planted some red tulips in troughs last autumn
all flowered this year
Q. what do I do now

I think you're meant to take out the stem but leave the leaves till
they die off (so the bulb has enough strength to grow again next
year). Then I suppose it depends on what you want to do with the
troughs - for tulips I leave mine in the ground, but you may want to
empty your trough out for winter planting, so I guess you could lift
the bulbs and put them away until you are ready to replant them in
the autumn (would stop them rotting if it's not well drained)

I think as long as you don't pull the leaves off now before they have
had a chance to recoup some energy, it doesn't really matter /what/
you do with them.

(my black-ish tulips are still growing well - apart from my 4 year old
picked all the flowers off to feed to the chickens, except for 1 poor
lonely flower hiding under the day-lily)

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many thanx

feed the 4 year old to the chickens :-)
DB001
I AM NOT A NUMBER I AM A FREE MAN


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wrote ...
DB001 wrote:
I planted some red tulips in troughs last autumn
all flowered this year
Q. what do I do now

I think you're meant to take out the stem but leave the leaves till they
die
off (so the bulb has enough strength to grow again next year). Then I
suppose it depends on what you want to do with the troughs - for tulips I
leave mine in the ground, but you may want to empty your trough out for
winter planting, so I guess you could lift the bulbs and put them away
until
you are ready to replant them in the autumn (would stop them rotting if
it's
not well drained)

I think as long as you don't pull the leaves off now before they have had
a
chance to recoup some energy, it doesn't really matter /what/ you do with
them.

Don't forget to feed them whilst they have green leaves on them, any good
fertilizer will do, that way you build up the bulb for next seasons
flowering. Same with all bulbs BTW.

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

"DB001" wrote
I planted some red tulips in troughs last autumn
all flowered this year
Q. what do I do now

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W.of London. UK

Bob Hobden wrote:

BTW it's not a good idea to use your real e-mail address in Newsgroups you
could end up with a lot of spam. in your in box. Use something like mine.

Don't worry about it though, my email has been in plain sight on
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Chris J Dixon wrote:
Bob Hobden wrote:

BTW it's not a good idea to use your real e-mail address in Newsgroups you
could end up with a lot of spam. in your in box. Use something like mine.

Don't worry about it though, my email has been in plain sight on
usenet for many years now, and (at risk of tempting fate) doesn't
seem to have attracted unusual amounts of unwanted attention.

Mine has been for 30 years, and 90% of the spam I get is from
work-related groups and stolen mailing lists.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.