When I moved into this house about 18 years ago, I moved a bunch of jonquils from the front of the house to the back. Well, every year they come up but they have never had a bloom. Don't know what I did to them.

Nancy

Nancy, I always fertilize my bulbs in the fall. Before I started doing this, I had only light bloom. Now I get over a thousand blossoms.

I make my own fertilizer from a recipe I got from the Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.

2 lb. dried blood
2 lb. bonemeal
3 lb. greensand

I mix it in a wheelbarrow with a hoe.
This is enough for 100 square feet, but I've broken it down since some of my smaller clumps are only a few square feet. It takes roughly 2 tablespoons per square foot or 1/2 c. for 4 square feet.

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Terry

May the force be with you

Charoopy

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I put some manure (bagged, that's the only kind I have access to) around them.

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Manure promotes green growth...

Try some Bone Meal (1-13-0) The middle number
promotes a flower in the plant...
and it's nice and organic..

*I like Terry's mix to!! *

I might scratch it into the soil,
as it tends to attrack some animals that like
bone's..*cats/dogs, etc.*
But it you scratch it in, it'll mask its' scent..

I'm an experimenter, so I'd try it..
pull some up, and replant a little less deep..
and put bone meal on both areas, the old area and new one where you planted the other ones..

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Got to thinkin' on this one..

Are they planted in a bed,
or are they mowed down at any certain time?????

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Weezie

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done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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It might be a culmination of the two things..
When they're planted too deep, again,
they spend their energy to get to the top of the soil line.

Then when you mow down the top green growth,
that's the part they get their next years energy from....
*stored up as the green turn brown, it essentially gets sucked up into the bulb and stored for next year..*

So, when you mow, each year it's energy store gets depleted more and more...

Give it a try and move some this year,
maybe not all if you're not up to it..

Or maybe do two groups.. one in a South facing area, and one where you know it gets sun all day and try different spots, you maybe suprised..

And if it works, then do the rest...
Can't hurt!!

How many are there???

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Thank you all for your information. I think I will just let them be for now. Then let them do their thing and not mow. Then when it's time I'll move them and not plant so deep and try some of the fertilizer. Thanks again.

Nancy

P.S. How did ya'll get so smart about all this stuff. I've picked up so information on this forum. I don't post much, but I read a whole lot.

Thanx for all that info, Terry & weezie! (And, good questions, Nancy & Dodge! I need to know the answers to all that stuff, as well!) There were a few scattered Daffodils here when we bought this place a couple years ago, but other than that, I've never really been "up close" to these types of flowers before! (PRETTY!)

HOWEVER... my daughter showed up yesterday with 4 huge boxes of plants, from a friend who bought a house & is completely demolishing everything, with plans to rebuild/replant everything! In the boxes are Daffodils, Narcissus, & a couple other things in that general family (I think), along with some Grape Hyacinth & lots of different Succulents. (The roots/bulbs are all still sitting nicely in the soil they've been growing in)! Now, what to do with them!

I need to look up this "jonquil" family, to find out if they grow in both shaded & sunny areas, because I know that I don't want to plant them all in the same bed with nothing else, as once their blossoms are gone, all that's left is green stuff to weed around, & I think there should be some Annuals or some other things planted with them, that will come up as those die back, etc. etc.

My question here is: We've had some spring-like weather for several days, but warnings are posted for a Cold snap, before the week is over! Many of these Daffodils & things already have blossoms that are ready to open up in another week or so.... Do I dare put them in the ground now, where they're likely to get frostbitten, or should I just keep them in the boxes of dirt, in the garage or somewhere sheltered, till this cold front passes?

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Sheri, the ground is not frozen here, & seldom does (so I hear... I've also heard that it doesn't freeze here.. but it has, a couple times, this year!) We're expecting Arctic air this week, which will take the snow level down to "less than 1,000 feet" (we sit at 465 feet), & we WILL have freezing temps for a few days (in the 20's). Of course, we have no idea how long it's going to last, but without sustained freezing temps I wouldn't expect that the ground is going to "deep freeze" at all... as in, not more than an inch, IF even that deep.

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