Category: Diseases and Pests

Discussions about a wide variety of elements that can harm daffodils.

Strawberries and daffodils

Both of these like well drained, sandy soils in the southern states. Choose a variety that is fairly short in height growing in and among well spaced out daffodils. By the time you have harvested a years supply of strawberries,…

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.…

Stagonospora – Leaf tip browning – Narcissus Leaf Scorch

The RHS has some great information and photos of Stagonospora curtisii in Narcissus. The site can be reached at: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?PID=735 Worth reading as the fungus can easily be confused with freeze damage. I DO pick off the tips of any…