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Daffodil Leaves Cut Off?
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I've popped inside from gardening to ask the gardening experts if I can cut the leaves down from my daffodils and tulips, they look such a mess now.
I know you are supposed to leave them 6 - 8 weeks so the goodness goes back into the bulb for next year but this year they were so late flowering, it will be July before I can do it, so I can't get the bedding plants in easily and can't bear the garden to be in such a mess any longer!
Has anyone else ignored this advice this year and cut them off early? Thanks!
I know you are supposed to leave them 6 - 8 weeks so the goodness goes back into the bulb for next year but this year they were so late flowering, it will be July before I can do it, so I can't get the bedding plants in easily and can't bear the garden to be in such a mess any longer!
Has anyone else ignored this advice this year and cut them off early? Thanks!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I used to do that Boxy but on all the gardening programmes it says not to tie them, bend them over or put an elastic band round the stem as the goodness has to travel from tips of leaves to bulbs.
http:// www.blo g.allab outdaff odils.c om/2009 /07/daf fodil-l eaves-s hould-t hey-be- cuttied .html
I know I should leave them ...... but I'm fed up with them :( Just wondered what others are doing this year.
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I know I should leave them ...... but I'm fed up with them :( Just wondered what others are doing this year.
I know of someone who would dig a small shallow trench in an out-of the way place in the garden, dig up the daffs and tulips, then lay them down with just the bulbs in the trench and cover them (the bulbs) with earth. Once the leaves had died back, he'd lift the bulbs and store them ready for planting for next season. Worked a treat.
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