Re: Dying daffodils

Someone told me that on Martha Stewart, she said if you grabbed a hunk of the leaves at the base, and then cut them off ABOVE where you are holding them at the base, they would be fine.  Then let those few inches of leave die back.  It doesn't help solve planting over them, but you could get some of the foliage gone. 

At 06:56 AM 5/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey all you bulb gardners out there:
>For longer than I care to remember, I have been
>growing bulbs..among them daffodils.  Up until now, I
>have ALWAYS waited until the foliage was completely
>yellow and nearly rotting before I got rid of it.
>Last year I read somewhere that you only have to wait
>until it is lying on the ground to cut it back.  I
>wondered if any of you have ever cut back the foliage
>this early.  The way I have been doing it is
>frustrating because some years it is late in June
>before it is rotted enough to pull out easily.  By
>then it's too late to plant anything else so the beds
>and borders where I have bulbs remain bare the rest of
>the summer.Some of my Daffs are in a semi-reclining
>position at the moment and I was thinking that if they
>would hurry up and finish reclining, I could put in
>some annuals.  What do you think?  When do the rest of
>you trim back your daffs.  The tulips (bless their
>hearts) are quick to make an exit and are no problem
>but the daffs are a real pain.
>Jeanne
>
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>Jeanne
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