Daffodils that don’t bloom: Garden advice from Dan Gill | Home/Garden

Yard columnist Dan Gill solutions readers’ queries every single week. To send out a problem, e mail Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu.

My daffodils have not bloomed in a few many years. The initially 12 months I planted them, they did bloom. Each 12 months, they come up hunting nutritious and increasing in quantity but no buds or blooms. What could be the dilemma? — Janice Boudreaux

Make positive the daffodils are getting lots of immediate sun for the duration of their winter rising time. Whole sunlight creates the finest flowering not adequate sun in winter will cut down flowering. If they are not acquiring sufficient sunshine in their latest place, dig them up when the foliage turns yellow and replant them in a sunnier location. Also, some varieties of daffodils do not rebloom effectively in the Deep South.

King Alfred is a well-liked yellow daffodil that will not repeat bloom down in this article. There is practically nothing you can do if you planted a assortment that will not reliably bloom. Fortune, Carlton, Unsurpassable and Ice Follies are four daffodils that usually rebloom effectively listed here.

There have been tons of leaves slipping from the live oak in the property of the dwelling I just moved into. What provides? I imagined live oaks have been evergreen. — Jeffery Norris

Despite the fact that are living oaks (Quercus virginiana) are viewed as evergreen mainly because they keep onto their leaves as a result of the winter season, numerous live oaks fall most or all of their foliage in early spring. They ship out their new leaves so rapidly that they are only leafless for a short time. It can be confusing since not all are living oaks are on the exact cycle. Some live oaks fall a good deal of leaves and some fall really couple of in a given calendar year.

If your stay oak is dropping leaves now, it is usual and no result in for worry. Really don’t rake up and throw away the oak leaves. The leaves make a fantastic mulch or addition to your compost pile.

My lime tree died, I guess from the freeze (it got beneath 20 levels). All my citrus trees dropped their leaves and have now developed new leaves, some are blooming and accomplishing quite nicely. But the lime tree died. Why? It was 10 a long time previous and it was a authentic producer. — Richard

Citrus trees range in their degree of chilly tolerance. From the most cold hardy to the least cold hardy it goes: kumquat, satsuma, orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime. So, limes, you see, are the minimum cold hardy kind of citrus, and that means it is most probable to be killed during critical freezes.

I usually utilize a garden weed killer in early March and fertilize afterwards on in May well or June. When spraying the garden weed killer, I have acquired possibly every hose-finish sprayer there is. I set in the volume said and established the dial as mentioned. But invariably, in advance of I am even close to covering the location it is supposed to cover, the container is empty. I then fear if the around-application of weed killer will eliminate the grass. Can you propose a sprayer that is effective or some other product/technique for the weeds? — Cindy

Hose-conclude sprayers are helpful to use and well-known for applying garden weed killers because you can go over massive areas swiftly with them. The fact that you run out of herbicide before spraying the sizing region it really should address signifies that you want to move more briskly by way of the area.

The aim is just to damp the foliage of the grass and weeds, which requires no a lot more than one particular or two passes, and then transfer on.

On the other hand, you could come across it less complicated to use a fall spreader to apply a granular item. For that, I’d advocate penoxsulam (Inexperienced Light Wipe Out for Hard Weeds in Lawns or Ferti-loam Dollarweed Command As well as). An edge of this garden weed killer, when in contrast to most others, is that it is safe and sound to implement below current shade trees in the landscape.

As to when you fertilize, you need to do it quicker. The initial fertilizer software need to be created to space lawns in the very last week of March or in early April. Waiting right until May or June is later than recommended.

Garden tips

OAK Check: Check your oak trees (use binoculars) for masses of young, black buck moth caterpillars about the future couple of months. Think about getting your tree sprayed if you see massive quantities. Also take into consideration obtaining your tree sprayed if you noticed a large populace in your trees previous year. Spraying is very best finished in advance of the caterpillars develop substantial and get started leaving the tree in April and Could.

PLANT NOW: In early March, plant seeds of beets, carrots, collards, greens (mustard and turnip), lettuce, potatoes (seed pieces) and radish. Plant transplants of broccoli, cabbage and kohlrabi.

PLANT MID MARCH: Commencing in mid-to-late March, plant seeds or transplants of cantaloupe, corn, cucumbers, cucuzza, lima beans, mustard, pumpkin, snap beans, summer squash, Swiss chard, watermelons, winter season squash. Plant transplants of kohlrabi, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes.

ROSES NOW: Continue to plant roses ordered in containers. Bare root roses, available at like components shops, garden departments of chain suppliers and supermarkets, should really have been planted very last thirty day period. They really should be planted promptly at this stage.

Plan FOR BULBS: Make notes on your spring-flowering bulbs more than the up coming few weeks while they are blooming. History when they bloom, how nicely they executed and other pertinent details. This will aid you strategy for what you want to plant this coming slide.