Planting Tulips in Containers
If Gophers and Deer Destroy Your Tulips... Try Planting Tulip Bulbs in Containers After years of planting tulip bulbs in my sand hills landscape and garden, and never having any tulip blooms in the spring, thanks to the gophers and deer, I have finally come up with a solution to my tulip-eating critter problem. I read an article about planting spring bulbs in containers, and thought I would give it a try. It is really quite easy, and has proven quite successful. The bulbs were not planted in the ground so the gophers could not get to them, and the pots are in front of the garage and on the porch, areas where the deer do not venture. Pot of tulips beginning to bloom in late March I used three polypropylene self-watering containers with several drainage holes drilled low in the side of the pot. Use a good potting soil mixed with some perlite for drainage. Tulip bulbs should be planted 6" to 7" below the soil surface, so I filled