Daffodil and Narcissus Tips for May
These Daffodils growing in grass have naturalised successfully and don’t get deadheaded but in your garden deadheading is a good idea.
May Activity for Daffodils.
- Pinch or cut off the seedhead before they swell to channel energy into bulbs.
- The leaves are busy converting sunlight and nutrients into sugars and stronger bulbs for next year.
- Do not cut off the leaves of Daffodills until they die back
- Apply a dilute liquid feed via the leaves with a good spray of fertilizer.
- As the leaves yellow at the end of the month you can split large clumps of bulbs. Replant 5-6″ apart in new soil or revitalise existing soil.
- When replanting do not bury the old foliage.
- Mark where your best Daffodils are so you do not dig them up by mistake.
- Plan where and what Narcissus you are growing next year.