It's normal for some varieties of daffodils. The 1-3" long leaves can get some winter damage but it doesn't seem to hurt the bulb and it quickly grows out in spring. Simon

I'm curious why you just take them to the edge of the field and dump them? If they grow there, seeds will make their way back into your gardens. Anything I want to assure doesn't find its way home goes to the landfill or is burned. The field is close, and it is absolutely green with the sob each spring, along with the wild onions. There are very few that bloom, as the bulbs have divided so many times, they are most all very small non blooming sized ones. If I would take these to the landfill, it would be part of a truckload each week, for months, and I would have to pay to dump them, and it is on the other side of the county. I also dump some in a gully on the property. I dig a good bit of soil out with each clump too, to assure getting all of the nasty little boogers. The beds that I have cleared, and a bed where I removed all the soil to 6" has stayed sob free, so seeds aren't coming in, or at least not much. There are areas of the yard that won't grow grass because about 50% of the topsoil 6" deep are clumps of bulbs. I'll get pics next spring. Surprisingly, there are only a few clumps in the front yard woods. When the house was built, the lot was pretty well wooded. When the basement was dug, the builder ran into slate, so the house ended up farther out of the ground than it would have otherwise. As a result, the builder hauled in 65 dump truck loads of soil from the field...all of it infested with the sob. I thought of asking the manager but I imagined he/she would be clueless and wonder why I expected them for less. I would have just offered him/her $1 a bag, and told them that was what they were reduced to elsewhere since it was so late in the planting season. I'm not shy. I had the driveway blacktopped late one fall. Since it was so late (I was told) they did not put down any weed killer. The next spring the sob pushed up through the blacktop. The paving supervisor said he had never seen or heard of anything like it before. Sue

how many bulbs are the normal trade? It is just however you want to offer them...or how many the trader might prefer. Now this is just me, but if I was trading for a named daff I would be satisfied to get 3 in trade...5 or 6 would be better. On some varieties a bulb friend might be doing me a favor by sharing, I would be happy to get even 1 or 2. If you offer in trades of 6 then you can maybe trade with more traders and acquire more varieties than say you trade 12 of one variety for 12 of another variety....but then maybe you were thinking of trading them for other things besides daffs...which would be another ball of wax. Really, it is what makes both traders happy but the final decision is up to you...the offerer. I may dig some of mine that have not multiplied much. I will likely offer them up in quantities of 3 or 5 bulbs....so I can get more varieties. In time, they will multiply anyway...some much better than others. Sue

Thanks Glenda very pretty. It must be spring or close enough to get excited about it. I should take notes now about where to plant bulbs next fall. Crocus in a flower bed get dug up but I have some on the side of my untended long drive way in the gravel in poor soil that make my walk to the mail box pleasant. I have some bulbs blooming under other plants, but some shade is too much and they don't do well. I have established that spring bulbs can be planted under crepe myrtle because they get their leaves late. I have a bed taken over by four o clocks ( wonder if the cold got the roots this year) I think maybe bulbs can be planted there because it takes a while for the four o clocks to get big. There are a few hyacinths there and I'll have to see this year if they are doing well or declining. In late summer that bed is all big tall four o clocks.