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Re: [SG] tulips/daffodils -Reply

On Thu, 28 May 1998, SUSAN SAXTON wrote:

> I use rubberbands to fold over and put in a
> "pony tail" so to speak.  I save the rubberbands
> from anything and everything during the year
> for this (especially the little blue ones from
> green onion bunches.)

Have you tried letting the leaves mature normally without being
tidied up?  Recent studies have found that you're losing 10-25%
of the photosynthate by not leaving things alone, so you're
also "cheating" yourself of a slightly better show and potentially
longer lived bulbs that way.

Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8 (polarfleece)
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