Hello.

Hello, I'm new to the forum and quite new to gardening too. I don't have much knowledge of plants but I do do my garden all throughout the summer. I have a quick question. I planted tulips last year and as you all know they gone now. I did some research and left them all in the ground until all the leaves turned yellow and dry. Now my question is. Now that i am digging them out and storing them to plant next year (I'm storing them in a box with newspaper so that not one bulb touched the other one) do I split the bulbs as each one bulb and turned into about four or five. Here is a picture of what I mean.

 

Hi Mania,
Welcome to Gardeners Corner

Can I ask why you are digging them out now?

I would leave them in as they should be planted anyway from this autumn. You can't plant tulips " next year", to flower next year.
The ones you've already dug out, I would plant them around 10 inches deep, that usually strengthens the bulbs.

 

Thanks.

Because I read on a lot of websites that they last longer and come back better if you dig them out replant them in October or November. I read that if you leave them in the ground they don't come back year after year?

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Mania28.

 

Welcome to GH @Mania28

 

Thanks for the welcome

 

Hi there...welcome to GC

 

Thanks Fern

 

Thanks JWK. It took me ages to dig them all up separate them and pack them all away do I can keep them over the next few months. However, I do now have three times the amount of bulbs for autumn