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Re: [SG] tulips/daffodils -Reply -Reply

Oh bother, really?  I'd heard that made no
difference (tieing).  Sigh!

>>> Kay Lancaster <kay@FERN.COM>
05/28/98 10:05am >>>
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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