BLIND DAFFODILS

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY OF DEALING WITH BLIND DAFFS, IS IT BETTER TO DIG UP AND THROW AWAY, OR LEAVE UNTIL THEY COMPLETELY DIE OFF AND HOPE FOR THE BEST NEXT YEAR?

 

Daffodils usually go blind for one of three main reasons.
1. Narcissus fly. This is a nasty grub which eat away the insdie of the bulb,so all you get are a few poor leaves. If your bulbs have few leaves, dig one up, cut it open and you cannot fail to see the grub. No cure, dig up and discard. Replant with new bulbs.
2. Planted too shallow. There should be at least three times the length of the bulb of soil about the bulb. Dig up and replant deeper. Do this in May/June.
3, They are hungry!. Either you have cut off the foliage too early, or there are too many in the clump, or your soil is not providing them with enough nutrients, So dig up and spread out, or hoe in now some rose fertiliser and then foliage feed later on after flowering season is over.
When replanting add some bonemeal or such like to the soil.

 

WE were told when our daffs did not flower
too not cut down, just dead head, and feed with
Tomato food, every week for about six weeks,
and if still no luck move. wheelie.