Day: June 19, 2008

M.B.E.

It was announced in the  recent Queens Birthday Honours List that James Akers has been awarded the M.B.E. for voluntary service to Tulip horticulture. Congratulations James  well deserved. John Gibson  

sun-drying bulbs

Daffnetters, My experience with bulbs left in the sun is quite different from that of Clay Higgins and Dave Adams. Here in Oakley, California, any bulb missed in digging and left in the sun for a few days will be…

Best in Show

Daffnet Friends, Daffnet has been a little slow lately, so I thought I would throw out a little un-interesting statistic. LOL I have for the last 11 years in a row won a “Best in Show” every year* until 2008. …

an alternate to HWT?

Hot water treatment as far as I have read will NOT kill the various virus’s that daffodil bulbs can be infested with. Hot water treatment for bulbs is normally used to kill mites, nematodes, bulb flies ETC. There is an…