Weather conditions here in Moss Landing, California have been pathetic for the last 3 months or so from a hybridization standpoint—or so I thought, based on a lifetime of what to expect when conditions are pretty consistently cold and rainy.…
Category: Fertilizing
Winter Storm
Hi, Yesterday was the start of a winter storm just off the east coast of the U.S. It’s traveling north up the east coast. It’ s what we call a Northeast “ter”. The storm circulates counter clockwise, which means that…
Updates to the ADS Handbook for Growing, Exhibiting, and Judging Daffodils
There have been many changes made by the ADS Board of Directors to the ADS Judges Manual (officially known as the Handbook for Growing, Exhibiting, and Judging Daffodils) since the Judges Manual was last updated and printed in 2007. There…
fertilizer – calcium sulfate
I have finished a room renovation project, leaving me with extra strips of ‘Sheetrock’ aka gypsum board . The main component of this is re-hydrated calcium sulfate -CaSO4, which in an earlier post on Daffnet (Laura Baster, Dec 2, 2006),…
How tall does your daffodil grow?
Nancy Tackett forwarded a query about growing tall daffodils in Chicago, and as I just responded it occurred to me that answers form others about their local climes may be of interest to us all. The desire was for a…
Tips for Growing Large Blooms and an Experiment To Try
John B’s comment about growing ‘Mexican Hat’ to size prompts this post. While visiting England and N. Ireland, it was both humbling and enlightening to see the incredible HUGE size of flowers achieved by Brian Duncan and Clive Postles. Our…