Wow, great temps for the day. Congrats on getting your gardening started. When I moved to the country 19 years ago I thought the rocks in the garden were a nuisance until an old timer told me to leave them in because they add trace minerals as they decompose. He did that old-timer mumble about folks digging out all the rocks and then adding fertilizer to put back in some of the stuff that God put the rocks there for. So, pick out some if its all rocky, but leave some.
and don't give up on your tulips. Sometimes things take a season to get going.
Good to know! So I have some excuse...but some of the rocks are real monsters! And one corner of the little patch we dug up is almost pure sand. Why, I don't know...we're talking a rectangle about five feet by three...you wouldn't think there would be much of a variation between one end and the other, but there is!