How to Force Tulips- or at Least Make People Think You Did

by Amanda @ The Refurbished Home

I am ready for gardening season! Just one problem… It’s March and I live in Michigan. The snow is melting but there’s still several feet sitting on top of my garden beds. So if I want to be growing any flowers right now, it’s going to have to be indoors.

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Forcing tulip bulbs really isn’t that difficult, and if you want to do it the right way, the instructions are very nearly the same. Here’s the thing, finding tulip bulbs this time of year really isn’t that easy. Tulips need to be planted in the fall, so in the fall they can be found just about anywhere. In the late winter or spring it’s a different story. Sure, I could have ordered some online but honestly, any time I have ordered any sort of plant life it has arrived in pretty bad condition. So I decided to fake it using pre-planted tulips. Yep, generic, paper-wrapped, grocery store tulips.

It's a delicate process.

But if you are careful, and follow the full instructions, you can can enjoy the beauty forced tulips in your home as well.

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Jelly on Feb 14, 2016
Thank you for the tip on Forcing bulbs. Have you ever tried them outside. I live in Jasper, AB and we have freezing conditions until May. I have flowers in my window planters all summer, then winterscape with Cedar until around March. Then it is really dull and drab, i thought of putting groups tulips and bulbs outside in the window planters, and bringing in over night if needed. Thoughts?

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Loren on Dec 30, 2018

I love this! When I click on your link for details it says your web address doesn't exist. Did you change it? Can you please repost the link for the details of this? Thanks in advance! Loren

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