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Hi all.

Here is a sad story. Bob could use your ideas.

frank

From: Bob Markey
Subject: Rahway NJ Park Planting Got Mowed!

Message Body:

Hi,
Our Rahway, NJ Garden Club last year worked with the local community to plant 1000 daffodil bulbs at Rahway’s Kiwanis Park.

They came up and put out a fantastic bloom until last week when our Dept of Public Works mistakenly cut them down while in full bloom.

I’m concerned that next year’s show will be very marginal given that the leaves were never allowed to brown. I’m thinking that it might help to fertilize the planting area with a bulb boosting fertilizer.

Your advice please and if you agree that fertilizer will help, might you suggest what type and a manufacturer. We do like Espoma’s fertilizer products.

Thank you,
Bob Markey

2 comments for “Mowed down”

  1. Bob–a number of years back, I donated some bulbs to a local park in the town where I live.  A similar thing happened.  The contractors who cut the grass, hired people from another country–who did not know what daffodils were and they cut them down.  It was obvious they knew what a Yucca plant was–those were not cut, but they cut daffodils.  For a number of years I have had to remind the people responsible for cutting grass –that they should not cut the foliage of daffodils down until Memorial Day.  SLOWLY–the daffodils have recovered.  Unfortunately, some were lost.

    I did not mention using fertilizer, but that might help.

    My advice is to remind the park maintenance people each year to not cut the daffodils until Memorial Day.  (use of a day like that–is easy for them to remember)

    Keep us posted in future years.

  2. We had the same thing happen to the daffodils we planted around the
    visitors center for St. Simons Island.. Same perpetrator!

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