The choice of location and soil preparation  

The choice of location and soil preparation

Land for cultivation should be chosen on a flat well lit place, protected from strong cold winds. If the plot is uneven. in yamkah will stagnate water. This can lead to rot and vymokaniyu bulbs vymerzaniyu summer and winter. In poor lighting tulip stems extended, bend and polegayut, color of flowers will be paler. |

Grounds tulips like loose, fertile, moderately humidified. You can not grow tulips in areas with high standing ground water. In this case it is necessary to have drainage.

Tulips can be returned to the station, where they have grown, not earlier than 4-5 years. Choosing predecessors have to remember that the onion (lilii. narcissuses, onions) are common with tulips diseases and pests.

Tulips prefer soil with a neutral or alkalescent reaction. On acid soils increases the number of «blind» buds. Tillage should hold for 1-2 months before planting at a depth of 30 cm soil perekopke must fill fertilizers. It is impossible to make a fresh tulips or insufficient pereprevshy manure, it can cause an outbreak of fungal diseases. Doses of fertilizers depends on soil fertility, local climate conditions, etc., the approximate dose of 1 square. m. is:

  • - Pereprevshy manure or compost 2 buckets
  • - 200 g wood ash
  • - Dolomite powder or chalk - 500 g.
  • - Double superphosphate - 50 g
  • - Potassium nitrate or potassium sulfate 30 g,
  • - Urea or ammonium nitrate - 25 g (introduced just before the landing).
  • - You can make a complete fertilizer type nitrofoski at a rate of 100 g / sq. m.