How to perfectly harvest a tulip without causing any damage to the bulb: the method is easy and within everyone’s reach.
Beautiful and colourful, tulips are among the most fascinating flowers. They harmoniously fill a flower holder, it is nice to create a bouquet of the same color or varied, to give as a gift or to admire at home. Tulips belong to the tulip family Liliaceae and they are bulbous species that can reach a height of 10 -15 cm.
They grow spontaneously and have become flowers very popular in Türkiye in the 16th century when King Suleiman the Magnificent wanted to develop the great variety of this species by planting different types. These beautiful flowers they spread more and more and in the mid-16th century they arrived in Italy imported by the Flemish Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq.
In the Netherlands they found their maximum flowering and soon became the symbol of that area. They are flowers suitable for decorating flowerbeds, gardens, parks, and the industrial production of cut flowers sees them as protagonists in large quantities. But how to pick a tulip in the right way, without damaging the bulb? Here’s a step-by-step explanation of how to do it.
Picking a tulip in the best way: the step by step guide
Tulips grow in sandy, cool, deep soil. They fear water stagnation and they must be fertilized regularly with a good fertilizer that can provide them with the appropriate nutrients. Nitrate based solutions are ideal, to be used both before and after flowering.
There are bulbs that are located at the base of the walker and multiply through them. When picking a tulip you need to know how to act so as not to cause damage to the bulb. You have to take it starting from the bottom, right next to the ground and pull slightly until the bulb comes out.
Then it is shaken to eliminate residual soil and cleaned lightly with your hands. It is therefore important to use great delicacy and make a firm movement when tearing. Subsequently, once we arrived home, with a shear you forcefully detach the bulb. To preserve it it is advisable wrap it in a sheet of absorbent paper and leave it like that for about a couple of days for it to dry.
With scissors you go to make an oblique cut at the end of the stem of the tulip and only then can you place the flower in the vase with water. This must be changed every 2 days for good maintenance of the tulip so that it can last as long as possible before withering.
When changing the water it is advisable to make a new cut to the stem, always obliquely, shortening it of approximately 1 cm. The bulbs can be stored in a newspaper bag and then planted in the best season, autumn, precisely in October.
