It’s time to dig daffodils and I am feeling the pain already. This being my 80th year, digging gets harder each year and I have muscles that I didn’t know about already telling me they don’t want to do it. But they will do the digging and the hurting.
I really have to cut back on my growing of daffodils, I have too many daffodils. This year I’m digging a large amount of my seedling daffodils, and many of my newest acquired ones. I’m keeping the newest ones and sending out many of my seedling. These are great seedlings, most have won a Rose Ribbons, or a blue ribbon, or been in a collection that won a blue ribbon, and some were in my all seedling Quinn award.
I have a large number of the miniature ‘Artie Lemons’ 10W-Y that has sold for $65 dollars each on the ADS fall auction. I had one judge ask me for my ‘Uncle Jim’ 10Y-Y during the spring shows, it is available now. Sorry I can’t remember who asked for it.
Well, anyway, enjoy the digging season.
Clay
I’ve been digging here in Western Washington for the last week. I can handle maybe 2 hours at a time. before I give out. It’s humid but I try to dig when its below 70 degrees. I’m digging a bit earlier this year than normal so I can see a bit of foliage. Some varieties really plumped up nice this year. Once they dry out I plan to do a HWT. I’ve got a lot of bulb flies flying around and wondered if I should do an insecticide dip after I HWT or is a good HWT all I need to do.
Bill,
HWT will take care of the bulb flys you have in the bulbs out of the
ground. However I would recommend that you spray for bulb flies twice a
year on all your Daffodil, spray it on the ground at the base of your
daffodils. Once at the start of bloom season and again in June while the
foliage is still green. It works on my daffodils. I hardly ever see a bulb
fly in my daffodils.
Clay