These daffodil blooms had their stems split roughly into thirds with a sharp knife and then I just ripped the thirds apart another inch and or two to finish splitting them so that the bottom of the stems were…
Category: Fertilizing
Diamond dusting? Under Infrared lighting?
Last year this subject came up and I was wondering if anyone has access to this type of photography to do some experiments. What our human eyes see as “Diamond Dust” just might be locator beacons for some of the…
Testing soils with turnips or radishes
Nitrogen Content in Fertilizer
I recall his being discussed here but I don’t recall a definitive answer. Is there scientific data to substantiate the practice of insisting on a low nitrogen content in fertilizer used for daffodils? This came up at the Master Gardener…
preferred fertiilizer for bulbocodiums?
All, My bulbocodiums are up, and cantabricus is blooming I just have them out in the yard in regular dirt I took all the itty bitties from our bulb sale last year, so last year only 1 bloomed; this year…
Lifting, Hot water treatment, storage and planting
The following posting is the recipe used by Johnny Walkers referred to by Ian Tyler’s posting October 27: The programme that I use is as follows:- After lifting the bulbs in June /July the bulbs are dried and sorted. The…