question re growing vegetables w/ daffodil

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 wondering after the daffodils die back, is it OK to use that same bed for growing vegetables, in particular tomatoes? It’s a shame to let the raised bed go unused during the growing months as the dirt is very rich (we also compost it during the winter & thru out the summer, mostly with nonfertilized grass and mulched leaves from my lawn mowing business). I know tomatoes use alot of nitrogen. I grow the best heirloom tomatoes in raised beds, fertilized only organically. If tomatoes don’t work, is there a vegetable I could plant that would be more compatible? Are there any dangers to planting vegetables in the same raised beds as the dormant daffodils? I remember hearing somewhere that daffodils could be poisonous if ingested.

thanks for any information you might be able to provide.

Brad Weaver
Member of American and Georgia Daffodil Society
Dawsonville, GA
website: bradleyspumpkinpatch.com
770-380-3636

3 comments for “question re growing vegetables w/ daffodil

  1. Brad, my city garden is where I grow my veggies–and they comingle just
    fine with neighboring bulbs (daffodils, crinum, lycoris, galtonia,
    etc.), and vice-versa. A springtime 10′ x 10′ bed of historic daffodils
    doubles as my herb, pepper, eggplant, and tomato garden in the summer.
    Gotta consolidate and make every square foot count!

    Jason

    Jason A. Delaney | Missouri Botanical Garden | North Gardens
    Supervisor and Bulb Collections Specialist

    Post Office Box 299 | Saint Louis, Missouri 63166-0299 | United
    States of America |

  2. WOW- the daffs are progressing swiftly this season!I would worry about the water a garden requires in our summers.The daffs ought not do any harm to the vegetablesbut most recommend not watering daffodil plantingsin the summerJohn Beck
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  3. Particular tomatoes are breeder of nematodes. The nematodes will destroy
    you daffodils eventually. My mother in law told me not to do that, but I
    planted a batch of tomatores with some daffodils, and once the daffodils had
    all died, I had the ground checked for nematodes and fount that I had an
    infestation of them.

    Never again. Just one mays experience. Plant marigolds.

    Clay

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