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Green Daffodils
Where's the yellow?
Are my daffodils taking the year off? Was it the crazy weather this winter with 70 degree days in January and then several harsh ice storms in February? Or do my bulbs just need to be dug up and divided?
I guess I'll dig up a few and see what's going on down there. It's hard to believe that out of the 400 bulbs that I planted 3 years ago, that not one flowered. The crocus came up a little late but they were fine.
Or maybe this is my yard's way of telling me that I need more bulbs.
The Groundhog Lied
After a few days of spring cleanup in my yard, I’ve traded my rake for a snow shovel. Friday’s snow storm has completely hidden my yard under a blanket of ice and snow again.
The poor daffodils must think that’s someone is playing a terrible joke on them. Hey everybody, spring is here even though it’s still January, grow, grow, grow! Whoops, it’s snowing, everybody get dormant now, sleep, sleep, sleep! Okay this time the warm weather is here to stay, grow like the wind! It’s snowing! Back in the ground, dive, dive, dive!
I hope that they don’t give up and eventually something yellow comes out of the ground.
Worst Gardening Tip of 2006
I read this in my local paper yesterday and it should go down as the worst gardening tip of 2006. Sorry can't find a link to it but apparently if you're tired of your daffodils tipping over The Record has a solution for you. Alcohol! I'll paraphrase here but it said that a Cornell University horticulturist says that giving some plants diluted alcohol (whisky, vodka, gin or tequila) will stunt the growth of the stem but has no effect on the blossoms. As a result the plant does not get tall enough to topple over. He also noted that beer and wine will not work and only the hard alcohols are effective.
What kind of crazy tip is this? Not only is the last week of the year a terrible time for a daffodil tip, but the tip itself is not at all practical. Was the newspaper editor's thinking that people will have left over booze from their New Year's Eve parties so here's an interesting way to get rid of it? Nope, I just can't make any sense of this.
Definitely the worst gardening tip of 2006 and they made it just under the wire.
