This actually carries 2 flowers on the stem but an earwig ate most of one. Seed was given to me by Manuel Lima marked [N. viridiflorus x Ace of Spades] x N. viridiflorus or [N. viridiflorus x Eastermoon]. I believe the latter was one of his seedlings bred from N. viridiflorus but he did not register it. This is not the ‘Ace of Spades’ registered by John Reed in 2000, I wish I knew what it was? The flower measures 55 mm accross.
Autumn Blooming Daffodils, Daffodil Types, Diseases and Pests, Hybridizing, Seedling, Snails, Deer and other Pests
Hello All
Interested in Harold’s comment on earwig damage. These little beasts were a major problem with this year’s crop. Does anyone have any remedies?
Peter
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Dear Peter
My father was a keen chrysanthemum grower and I remember as a lad 60 years ago accompanying him at dusk with a torch to his allotments. There he had among the chrysanthemums a number of canes pushed in the ground each of which had an inverted jam jar on top. The earwigs collected in the jam jars overnight and we disposed of them, humanely of course. I assume that it worked as he won lots of prizes. However as we seemed to go every night during the flowering season it probably wasn’t too effective. Another reason might have been that as we didn’t have a television in those days, or even electricity in the house, there wasn’t anything else to do in the evening.
Regards
James Akers
Tony
Yes I forgot the straw
James
Earwigs and slugs are our main pests. Fortunately we seem to have gotten rid of the shelled snails.
I once tried sinking margarine tubs filled with a half inch of olive oil on the bottom and a hole in the lid. It was buried in the bed with the lid level with the soil surface. This was somewhat effective but we needed hundreds of tubs so in the end I went back to using poison baits. We get a commercial snail bait that also has insecticides that is effective if one is diligent in applying it.
Harold
At 04:44 AM 12/12/2009, James Akers wrote: