Video: Planting Depth for Red Tulips

Planting Depth for Red Tulips

You never want to put your tulips into the ground too early or you'll have to deal with predators. Learn about the ideal planting depth for red tulips with help from a garden professional in this free video clip.

Video Transcript

Hi. Chuck again from DIG Garden Shop, and today we're going to talk about tulips in general. Today we're going to talk about the depth that you should plant red tulips at. So here we have a cold winter day, don't put your tulips in too early because you don't want the squirrels digging them up and you don't want them to sprout too early. So here in New York area, every place is different. But our ground starts to freeze around November, December. So don't put them in before. All right. So the important thing to do is look at a package on your tulip that says, tulips mostly take five inches down, six inches down. There's also a special tool that is a bulb digger which is a great idea for gardens that have nothing else in them. But this is a garden that's already established and you just want to add tulips to in the fall. So the real measure is just to figure out where five inches is on your shovel and this makes it easier. So I figure this is up to here for five inches. I'm going to go in, pick a spot where I can see that nothing grew before, go down to that specific hole and then I'm going to plant a clump of tulips, but no more than three in that same hole because I like how tulips look when they don't look you know, just one, two, three in a row. So it's really good to place those all the way down making sure that the tulip bulb is point up. And push that down, you'll dig your hole to a depth of five inches, you'll drop the bulb in with the points up, place them in there kind of so they're not just on top, don't throw them in. And then you're done. Dig, drop and done. And that's how you put in tulips.

Planting Depth for Red Tulips

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