I have a question for all you daffadil aficianados:
Out of 50 Dutch Master daffodils in divided into 4 separate clusters in the same flower bed as their original grouping, I have ONE bloom and NO budding stalks on the others. All the tall green fronds, thoiugh. What's wrong??
Last spring (the first bloom-time) all were together in one large area and bloomed gorgeous, impressive. As each bloom bec ame spent, I snapped off that bloom and its swollen seed/ ovary. I allowed the fronds to turn yellow and lay on the ground, getting paler; cutting & removing all fronds at the same time exactly 6 weeks after the last bloom. (B&B gave me this advice and timing.) A fews weeks later, I had this area carefully dug up and recovered the bulbs. After trimming off root tendrikls & stalk stumps, I spread the bulbs into one layer - in the shade - to allow the mud to dry on them. After brushing the dry soil off, I brought them into my house for curing. In a cool, dark room, I spread them again into one layer -checking & turning ~ every 3-4 days. The 2nd or 3rd week, I put teh bulbs into mesh pantyhose and hung them in the open closet area of that same cool.dark room. Every week or so, I would take this down and wriggle the bulbs around into a new position inside the hose, then re-hang. Continuing until late Sept, when I had them replanted. My temporary garden helper planted each bulp individually for 3 of the clusters: digging a hole, working in 1 tbs of granulated bulb food ~1 inch at the bottom of a 6 inch hole. (He loosely spaced each bulb in a cluster about 4 inches apart.) I was able to supervise the last cluster, a middle strip of daffodils with hyacinth on either side. (This is where the only bloom is.) I had him dig out the entire area to 4 inches deep, then dig out a middle strip another 2 inches. Again, he worked in the fertilizer, planted & covered the daffodil bulbs - then worked in fertiolizer for the hyacinth bulbs, planted and coveredd them. Done with the bulb planting, he watered (lightly) his newly planted areas.
I can't see what I did wrong or what step I might have missed ; please help me identify my error(s) so that these bulbs will be able to bloom next year and every year after that!
