What do I do with the daffodils to make sure they will grow next year too?

My daffodils are now dying. How do I make sure I get a good crop next year as well? I seem to have heard of a process called "sectioning"? Can someone describe what I need to do in detail please.

What do I do with the daffodils to make sure they will grow next year too?
I don't think you have to da anything, i don't and mine keep coming back! Think sectioning is digging them up, seperating alll the bulbs as they will be in clumps and replanting seperately.
Reply:The best care for daffodils is the feed them with bulb food when they emerge in winter. Give them good drainage and regular water in the growing period (do not over water they will rot). Do not cut of the foliage when they have finished flowering the foliage feeds the bulb and encourages flowers for next year (if you cut the foliage off they survive but don't get that extra energy for next year), just let them die down naturally.



After many years if you find the flower production is diminishing, dig them up and pull the younger bulbs from the older bulbs and replant.



It is a waste of time to fertilize them when they are dying down. Don't over water when they are dormant.



They are very tough, I grow mine in a warm temperate area (zone 9) and just leave them in the ground year after year. I always fertilize them with bulb food and they flower prolifically for me every year. The double flowered ones are just as tough as the single cups. Don't worry to much you can't do anything to wrong with them.
Reply:Just leave then, they self propogate each year there will be more.
Reply:Don't waste time digging them up and replanting next year. Just cut off the dead leaves and they will grow back even more next year.
Reply:dead head them but leave the leaves for 6 weeks before removing them. This will charge up the bulb with energy for next year.
Reply:The best way of ensuring a good show next year is to feed them for a few weeks with something like phostrogen or miracle grow liquid manure. The bulb builds up it's energy for next years flowering now. Don't remove the leaves until they turn brown as the bulb feeds through these as well. Every few years as the number increases you can lift them and split them into more small groups and replant immediately. Hope this helps.
Reply:Leave the foliage to die down naturaly and water with some tomorite.
Reply:Twist the stems off and leave the bulbs in the ground
Reply:It is worth dividing the clumps of bulbs every 3 or 4 years or so, giving each bulb more space, and fresher soil to grow from. Over-crowding does diminish their ability to flower, after some time.



After flowering is a precious time for daffodils, as they have this time only to build up the reserves and form next year's flowers within them. Dead-head flowers regularly, to stop energy being wasted on making seeds, before they die back - leaving more energy for next years flowers instead.



I also feed mine now and ensure that they don't dry out, as this will also limit their chances of flowering. I use an organic liquid sea-weed fertiliser, that I dilute in water, made by Vitax. Otherwise, you can add other fertilisers of your own choice. Also, add some organic matter, such as compost, around them, as this also returns nutrients to the soil and improves next year's growth.



I never tie them up, nor cut their leaves off. Think about it, cutting healthy leaves off is a way of stopping them making goodness out of the sunshine, and thus replenishing their reserves and forming the new flowers inside of them, ready for next spring.



Good luck! Rob
Reply:After the bloom dies, let the green stalk turn to brown. When it dries out, clip the stalk about 1/4 inch above the ground.



In the spring next year, rake a little bone meal fertilizer in the the bulbs. Daffodils are self producers. They store energy during the colder months and produce blooms in the spring. Baby bulbs will often be attached to the mother bulb. Some will produce flowers and some will not.



Squirrels, chipmunks, and moles who dig holes around the bulbs can disturb them. It's best to plant them in a clump rather than as a single flower.



Splitting the bulbs is a good idea in the early fall before temps turn too cold to work the ground. However, you need to dig up each bulb. Look for the baby bulbs that are attached and separate them from the larger bulb. Replant the smaller bulbs. These result in smaller blooms and may not produce the first year or ever. You can also take a sharp knife and cut thru a large mass and replant it in another spot, but again it's not always successful.



It's a lot of work to split bulbs. Therefore, it might be cheaper and easier to buy the bulbs at close out at the end of the spring season and store them in a cool place until fall planting time.
Reply:i don't do anything to mine.when i built my house i had to put in a water line,almost 1/4 of a mile.so i could relocate it if i had a problem with it in the future i planted daffodils on the water line.now i can go out there and see where the water line runs.this sure did help when they put in the under ground telephone line.
Reply:Just cut them right down and leave them, they will come back next year.Alternatively if you want them somewhere else then take them out careful not to damage the bulbs put them away and replant later.
Reply:You do NOT do anything to daffodils to keep them coming back year after year. We have got some in our garden that my grandparents planted 40 years ago and they keep flowering year after year - we done NOTHING to them.
Reply:deadhead, then liquid feed with tomatoe fertiliser,for a few weeks.when stems are withered cut down to base.
Reply:Daffodils are hardy little things and will come up year after year without you doing anything!

But what I would suggest is that you do not cut the leaves away after flowering has passed but tie them in a loose knot and let them wither away of their own accord!

The sectioning that you spoke about is when you dig up all the bulbs and seperate them but this is not to be don every year!

When you see your daffs growing and they have very few blooms on them and are all leaf then that is the year that you need to section them but only, again, after all floering has passed and the leaves have died back!
Reply:I leave the leaves as long as they stay green because they are feeding the bulbs. Only when they turn brown do I remove them. You can also apply some plant food to help with blooming. About every 3 years they do need to be separated because the bulbs underground multiply. If you don't, you will get alot of green leaves and not much flowers. Dig entire plant up and literally separate bulbs from each other by gently pulling apart and replant. Its easy.
Reply:Just leave them alone , they'l just do their own thing , and come up again and again !!
Reply:Just deadhead them and fertilize. They will come back next year.

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