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Viewing tulips in your own garden is surely heavenly thing. However, planting tulips may not as easy as you can imagine though you can do it easily. What you need to know is tulips need lots of water. If you live in a very warm area all-year-round, make sure to water your tulip garden at least once a week. If your garden gets plenty of rainfall nature will take care of the watering.

The best time to fertilize tulips is in the early spring and make sure you do it twice a year. Add a tablespoon of a granular fertilizer on the soil around each bulb and you should do it before flowering because feeding your tulips after flowering could cause a disease.

If you buy potted tulips from a nursery or store, you can plant them outdoors. Remember to plant the tulips as they are in the pot in a sunny location. You will kill the tulips when you separate them from the potting soil. Tulip care in the spring is not an option. Your garden will thank you and your tulips will salute you whenever the breeze blows.

However, you should prevent some animals from having such great breakfast at your garden. Rabbits and squirrels can harm the tulip plant by digging and eating tulip bulbs. Protect the bulbs by installing netting over the bulbs when planting them. Another hazardous threat is grubs. They are insects that are the biggest killer of tulip. If the dirt in your garden has grubs, use some time released insect/or grub killer on the ground around them once or twice a year.