I get your daffodil e-mails thru daffnet, but now have a question of my own: I planted daffodils in several raised beds. For the past 5 years, daffodils have been the only thing growing in the raised beds. I was…
Category: Nematode
Sterilizing soil with plastic & solar heat
I sent this to our master gardener group but it “might” be useful to folks on this list who live in areas with sunny hot summers. There are a total of three of these I will send but you can…
soil testing
Friends, I’ve just returned from taking soil samples to my county ag agent, only to be informed that the only testing will be for N, P, K. What I wanted now was a diagnosis of what is killing my bulbs.…
Flowering rate
Hello All, Every year brings a new challenge and unexpected results. In the over 50 years that I have been growing daffodils seriously something different seems to happen! This year it was flowering rate. My stock is divided almost equally…
identifying disease in bulbs and any result of Roundup?
Dear daffnet readers, I have dug some bulbs (fron raised beds newly made last year) this summer that were diseased, and I was not sure if it was basal rot or nematodes….what I was able to read about these problems…
Petunioids
Clay’s question stirred me to do a search the APHIS website implies that they are treating narcissus bulbs….. T555—Treatment for Infestations of Ditylenchus dipsaci on Narcissus T555-1 Narcissus (bulbs) Pest: Bulb nematodes—Ditylenchus dipsaci Treatment: T555-1 Presoak in water at 70…