After spreading out the Daffs on newspaper, all I have to do is turn them over every couple of days, or so. This mixes them up and stops them from going mouldy or developing any fungal infections. A cool dry place is good, such as my spare room. Unfortunately, as you can see; my cats think I have put them their for their benefit, still, I suppose they don't do any harm and it dose give them somewhere nice and comfy to sit.
When all the goodness from the leaves has gone back into the bulb, the top parts of the plants will easily pull off. Then the bulbs can be planted along roads, hedges, woodland and river banks.
It takes about seven years for Wild Daffodils to flower from seed & usually the bulbs don't start propagating themselves vegetatively until they are mature. A result of these facts is that often they don't flower for the first year after planting and they seem to increase rapidly on a site, from year to year, as more and more bulbs mature.
How long does it take to get the seeds from the daffies? So when you have seed, do you actually wait 7 years before they germinate and then do you put them out into the wild?
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