Daffodils

I've posted about on succession planting on this blog before. Check out this link to a post about succession planting from last year (Unfortunately, the link to the article in the Providence Journal that features pictures of One Love Farm and an interview with me is no longer active.) But, mostly that has been about vegetables. In other words, plant some lettuce one week, some more the following week and some more the next week and so on. This ensures a steady supply of lettuce throughout the season.

You can also do the same thing with perennials. For example, there are strawberries that produce fruit early in the season, mid season and late season. If you plant different varieties, you will get strawberries for several weeks instead of all at once. An advantage for both the people who like to eat the berries and the farmer who harvests them.

At One Love Farm, we had mini daffodils blooming in mid March. Then, full sized daffodils blooming at the end of March/beginning of April. Those blooms are done for the year. But now, we have other varieties of daffodils that are blooming now (the pictures above are the flowers currently in bloom). By planting multiple varieties of bulbs, we get blooming daffodils for two months.