Photo Credit:Jane Rickard
Years ago when living in Buffalo, New York I got to know the head gardner for a yacht club down the street. Marcia ruled the ladies who lunch with an iron fist in a garden glove especially when it came to bulbs. Nothing ever interfered with the beauty of her gardens .She was a real believer in letting nature maintain itself and using as few chemicals as possible. That included fertilizers for bulbs, just leave the leaves alone she would tell the volunteers as they wanted to cut the daffodils as soon as the flowers faded.
Marcia was a Organic Gardner ahead of her time, it is unnecessary to fertilize daffodil bulbs if you let those green leaves lie. The rule of thumb I use is they stay on the ground until completely brown, and that usually takes until the end of July. Daffodils are there own little fertilizer factories. Once the blossom dies, dead head bloom so it doesn’t go to seed. Then the plant will return all the nutrients it was going to use developing the seed to back to the bulb. The perfect amount for it’s summer and winter sleep.Sometimes nature just needs to be left to it’s self a bit to stay in balance.
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