Keith, I am working on my spreadsheet listing my daffodils and I thought about a question Intended to ask you. In the show and. grow book, it list all countries by their proper names except the Netherlands. It refers to…
Author: Keith Kridler, Texas
Master Gardener training
One of our Texas Daffodil members, Glenda Brogoitti taught a class of MG about daffodils. Really turned out to be a fun class with lots of information and letting them touch, feel and smell the daffodils. We are just coming…
Texas Daffodil group photo
The Texas Daffodil Society met today. Members brought a pretty good selection of blooms so that we could teach the new members how to select the best blooms from their yards. How to clean and stage their blooms and all…
46% nitrogen from Urea
Our worst soil on our farm is “across the creek”. This soil had only 1 PPM nitrogen, (needed to add 95 pounds per acre to get to Critical Level) only 8 PPM Phosphorus (needed to add 105 pounds per acre)…
Testing soils with turnips or radishes
These are pretty typical root, bulb and top growth for paper whites growing in good soils. Notice that if you “top dress” or put granular fertilizer out AFTER a daffodil blooms that by the time it dissolves and gets down…
nickers & 8’s
8 petals on a poet with nicks. We normally think of poets with perfect petals since they have short flat cups. I think this one was from St. Louis at the Shaw Preserve. Keith Kridler Mt. Pleasant, Texas