Feeding Tulips The Right Way: How And When To FertilizeTulips For More Brilliant Blooms. It is important to feed tulips properly so they have the best chance of beautiful blooms. The best time to fertilize your tulips is after planting them in the fall and again before they bloom in the spring. This is when the bulbs need the most energy. 'Fertilizingtulips is an important part of tulip care needed to keep your bulbs healthy and prolific for multiple seasons,' says bulb expert Katie Sunderlage. It will conceal the dying foliage nicely. According to The Plant Care Manual by Stefan Buczacki (Crown,1993), the time to fertilizetulips–if you need to fertilize them at all–is early spring. Choose perennial tulips if you want them to come back. Both the type of tulip and the way you care for it determine whether you’ll have an annual or perennial plant. How to fertilize your tulips.The best time to plant tulip bulbs is in fall. After planting, you should top dress the soil bed with organic compost and a slow-release fertilizer. Colorful tulips (Tulipa spp.) bloom in spring, sending up tall stems and cup-shaped blossoms that flower for three to six weeks. For the healthiest Garden tulips, fertilizer application should be strategic. The optimal time to start fertilizing is in the early spring, just as the shoots begin to emerge from the ground. Fertilizetulips when planting in the fall by adding a handful of compost and about a tablespoon of bonemeal to the hole. After the bulbs sprout in spring, feed them again with bone meal... Q. For the best spring flower display, when should I fertilize my tulip and daffodil bulbs? A. To produce the maximum number of top-quality spring flowers, tulips and daffodils require care first...
