UC Davis has produced a very interesting WEB site by overlaying soil type maps from the USGS with Satellite imagery of your location. Just enter a location ( I used my full address) and the overlays will show the soil…
Month: January 2012
46% nitrogen from Urea
Our worst soil on our farm is “across the creek”. This soil had only 1 PPM nitrogen, (needed to add 95 pounds per acre to get to Critical Level) only 8 PPM Phosphorus (needed to add 105 pounds per acre)…
Testing soils with turnips or radishes
These are pretty typical root, bulb and top growth for paper whites growing in good soils. Notice that if you “top dress” or put granular fertilizer out AFTER a daffodil blooms that by the time it dissolves and gets down…
sturdy stems?
—–Original Message—– Sent: Sat, Jan 28, 2012 10:23 pm Since’s everybody’s so daffodil happy with this early spring at least some of us are having, answer me this one: which two or three cultivars do you grow that consistently have…
Increase
I always reckoned the reverse bicolours multiplied like rabbits. As Tom indicated the white trumpets are most reluctant to multiply. Dave
bulb increase
Pacific Rim, 2 y-yyr, increased a lot for me. Approximately five years after planting one bulb, we had 24 small ones! Now I lift and divide more frequently. Vicky Eicher Charlottesville VA