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How to properly prepare the soil and not overdo it with fertilizers when growing tulips in the open field, let's try to figure it out together
Soil preparation for tulips
Having chosen a place for planting tulips, taking into account the characteristics of the plant, a couple of months before planting, shovel the soil to a depth of 30 cm, then harrow it and level it. A week before planting, the soil is dug up again or treated with a hoe (hoe). During the last tillage, fertilizers are applied to it.
When deciding to grow tulips on low-cultivated clay or loamy soils, the soil requires preliminary processing several years before planting.
Clay soils are diluted with coarse river sand. Sandy light soils are flavored with leaf humus, peat, humus.
But you should forget about fresh manure, since its introduction into the soil before planting provokes rotting of the roots and daughter bulbs unsuitable for reproduction. Of course, we will not do without manure, but we should introduce it into the soil 2 years before planting tulip bulbs. A similar picture emerges with the introduction of lime into the soil.
Deep digging of soil
Why is it recommended to dig up the soil to a depth of 35-40 cm before planting the bulbs? It is believed that such a digging depth enriches the soil with moisture and air. Added to this is the "resettlement" of seeds of weeds and larvae of numerous pests living in the upper layer of the soil to a depth, and those that live at a depth move upward. Once in unfavorable conditions for them, both of them have less chances of survival, which means they will bring less dirty tricks to the plant, and the gardener will reduce the amount of trouble.
In central Russia, there are areas in which deep digging of the earth is impossible due to the podzolic soil layer with very high acidity. Improving such soils is a long and costly process, not everyone can handle. Therefore, in such cases, it is better to abandon the cultivation of tulips, because the result of labor will be very deplorable. The bulbs will shrink and die.
Plowing green manure
To improve the quality of the soil in the area selected for tulips, green manures are planted, which are plowed into the soil before planting the bulbs. You can plow the previously disinfected compost into the soil. This plowing enriches the soil with nutrients and helps soil microorganisms to work better for the benefit of the plants.
Fertilization
The presence of nutrients in the soil and the fertilization carried out contribute to the better growth of tulips and the formation of large and healthy bulbs.
Adequate nitrogen in the soil increases bulb yields, leaves, stem length, flower size and promotes earlier flowering. Naturally, with a lack of nitrogen, an absolutely opposite picture is observed. If nitrogen is introduced in conjunction with potassium, then the number of medium-sized bulbs increases.
Some fertilizers, for example, phosphoric ones, do not have a direct effect on the crop, but in conjunction with potash fertilizers, they stimulate the development of the flower stem.
When preparing the soil, potash and phosphorus fertilizers are applied at full rate, and when planting the bulbs, nitrogen fertilizers are added.
Top dressing
The first feeding can be done in the fall or in the spring.
In the spring, top dressing is carried out during the period of active snow melting, so that fertilizers, along with melt water, penetrate to the roots.
In autumn, top dressing is carried out 1, 0-1, 5 months after planting the bulbs, before the soil is mulched.
Top dressing is carried out with readily soluble fertilizers, such as urea, ammonium nitrate, kalimag, potassium magnesium, potassium sulfate.
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