If you purchase bulbs from say Walmart or a nursery are they already cold stratified? I would like to plant some but knowing they need to be stored 6-8 weeks, I’m a bit behind the curve 🤦🏼♀️ Also would you recommend planting in pots when dealing with caliche soil?
I usually have problems with my bulbs getting moldy if I forget to check on them (and dry them off) while they are in the fridge. I have a separate mini fridge that I keep them in because I've had problems with them not blooming well due to all the fruit and veg I keep in the fridge. I mostly grow mine in the ground, but have put them in pots as well. I LOVE TULIPS! and it's a bit more work to grow here in So Cal. Also, do you still have your cats? Just wondering if they have helped with the rodent issues.
Lasagna bulb planting in a pot is great and has lovely results! This year I decided to do a color mix of the same type of small tulip but planted them in one layer. I'm looking forward to seeing how yours do at different layers! I also have to use wire because the squirrels bury their nuts from the neighbors' trees. 🫣🌰🐿️
I've never grown tulips because I thought they were perennials and I live in an apartment so I didn't want to spend money on something that I would have to leave in the ground if I moved. But the pots are a great idea. I'm in 6a so I'll have to try and remember to try it this fall. If you did a little video reminding us in the fall I'd be grateful cause I know I won't remember lol
Thanks Brian, you should have added another bulb to the second layer, just teasing, but one more would have fit. Again just take it with a grain of salt ❄️💚🙃 No criticism intended. ❄️💚🙃
Would I be able to do the layered pot I. Minnesota? I have an awful time with squirrels but I used plastic chicken wire over my garlic this year hoping that will help. I did that last somer with some plants. I would love to do a big pot of tulips.
Potted Tulips for the first time in 2022 and was so happy. Plan to pot more in 2023!! Think I'm going to do a whole row of them in the back of the house in all colors!
I used to not care about tulips, after one year I planted some in pots I can never go another year without plant them, they are so so beautiful! Thank you for the Friday video!
I would like to see you do a video like you mentioned, with different variety of bulbs, maybe three containers with different bulbs that will sprout at different times.
A good way to deal with fungus/mold on bulbs (including veg tubers) is Stearamine. A cousin to Bartender's Friend, bar sanitizing water solution. Can be bought and used like a dip, then air dry the bulb – and the mold and schmuck will be killed off – while the bulb remains unharmed. Further protection happens in the soil (soil blight one-celled virus, powdery mildew, fungus, molds, etc) will also protect the bulb during its growth.
Did anyone else get distracted by the hummingbird…around 8:58 or so?! Thanks for the great idea Brian. I’m going to have to try the lasagna technique and see how it works.
I'm in zone 9b/10a in Central Florida and I have had good luck with daylillies and irises. I have successfully propagated my daylillies from the harvested seeds. I just have to keep the rabbits from eating the tender leaves until the plant gets more mature. I use a quarter inch hardware cloth fence with stakes about 2' high around the beds. The squirrels are now chewing through the fiber mesh cloth I placed on top of my garden plants in my grow bags now and I need to probably put a piece of wire mesh cloch around the pot edges, so my project tomorrow….
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If you purchase bulbs from say Walmart or a nursery are they already cold stratified? I would like to plant some but knowing they need to be stored 6-8 weeks, I’m a bit behind the curve 🤦🏼♀️
Also would you recommend planting in pots when dealing with caliche soil?
You gotta get those gophers brah! Don't even second guess it!
Hello from Norway. I grow tulips in the ground. It is between -15 to +10 celcius her in the wintermonths. Perfect for tulips and other spring bulbs.
I have never grown Tulips. I did plant daffodil in the ground after your other video. I am in So Cal 9b, so we shall see how it goes.
I usually have problems with my bulbs getting moldy if I forget to check on them (and dry them off) while they are in the fridge. I have a separate mini fridge that I keep them in because I've had problems with them not blooming well due to all the fruit and veg I keep in the fridge. I mostly grow mine in the ground, but have put them in pots as well. I LOVE TULIPS! and it's a bit more work to grow here in So Cal. Also, do you still have your cats? Just wondering if they have helped with the rodent issues.
Lasagna bulb planting in a pot is great and has lovely results! This year I decided to do a color mix of the same type of small tulip but planted them in one layer. I'm looking forward to seeing how yours do at different layers! I also have to use wire because the squirrels bury their nuts from the neighbors' trees.
🫣🌰🐿️
I put ground cayenne pepper on the top of my pots. ❄️💚🙃
I've never grown tulips because I thought they were perennials and I live in an apartment so I didn't want to spend money on something that I would have to leave in the ground if I moved. But the pots are a great idea. I'm in 6a so I'll have to try and remember to try it this fall. If you did a little video reminding us in the fall I'd be grateful cause I know I won't remember lol
Thanks Brian, you should have added another bulb to the second layer, just teasing, but one more would have fit. Again just take it with a grain of salt ❄️💚🙃 No criticism intended. ❄️💚🙃
Thank you so much for all the tips how to grow tulips in pots. Great video!❤️
Can you eat tulips? C'mon get with the edible garden! We depend n you…
Would I be able to do the layered pot I. Minnesota? I have an awful time with squirrels but I used plastic chicken wire over my garlic this year hoping that will help. I did that last somer with some plants. I would love to do a big pot of tulips.
Potted Tulips for the first time in 2022 and was so happy. Plan to pot more in 2023!! Think I'm going to do a whole row of them in the back of the house in all colors!
after thdbtulios flower could you let them
grow the put the whole pot i he frig to
simulate the winter season?
I have never grown tulips before.
Wait… shouldn’t they all be planted at the same depth? i would think that the bottom layer would be too deep…or the top layer too shallow…🤔
I used to not care about tulips, after one year I planted some in pots I can never go another year without plant them, they are so so beautiful! Thank you for the Friday video!
I would like to see you do a video like you mentioned, with different variety of bulbs, maybe three containers with different bulbs that will sprout at different times.
A good way to deal with fungus/mold on bulbs (including veg tubers) is Stearamine. A cousin to Bartender's Friend, bar sanitizing water solution. Can be bought and used like a dip, then air dry the bulb – and the mold and schmuck will be killed off – while the bulb remains unharmed. Further protection happens in the soil (soil blight one-celled virus, powdery mildew, fungus, molds, etc) will also protect the bulb during its growth.
Did anyone else get distracted by the hummingbird…around 8:58 or so?! Thanks for the great idea Brian. I’m going to have to try the lasagna technique and see how it works.
I thought tulips were annual not parrinials?! I even feed mine and daffodils are only ones that come back in OK
I'm in zone 9b/10a in Central Florida and I have had good luck with daylillies and irises. I have successfully propagated my daylillies from the harvested seeds. I just have to keep the rabbits from eating the tender leaves until the plant gets more mature. I use a quarter inch hardware cloth fence with stakes about 2' high around the beds. The squirrels are now chewing through the fiber mesh cloth I placed on top of my garden plants in my grow bags now and I need to probably put a piece of wire mesh cloch around the pot edges, so my project tomorrow….
How cool!!!! I never knew about layering bulbs – game changer ! Thank you !
I grow them in the ground in front of the house, and they come back year after year