Treatment of spent Daffs

[rana]

We are advised to dead head and foliar feed Daffs after they have finished flowering and allow the leaves to put strength back into the bulbs (it all sounds perfectly logical). This means messy clumps of leaves poking up through un-mowed bits of lawn and in the flower beds until mid June or so.

The Daffodil laden roadside verges here are mowed out by the council in late April but the bulbs perform magnificently each spring. Do they know something we don't ?

[Alice]

You've got a point Rana. There's miles of daffs around here. The council cut them down and I'm sure they don't feed and the display is magnificent.

Thinking about that ------- the display is magnificent en masse. But if we want really showy heads for tubs and borders, I think we better feed.

[Flummery]

Our council are still mowing round the clumps. Mind you, when they finally do cut them at the beginning of June the 'grass' underneath looks rubbish - pale and straw like - but it greens up again within a couple of weeks.