How to plant Daylily
Plants
When your daylily plants arrive
your first move is soak the daylily plants in water for an hour
or two.
The soaking can be done while you are preparing the planting
holes.
This water bath will help rehydrate your daylily plant after
the days spent in a cardboard box.
Don't worry if your daylily plants show up a bit yellow.
They will green up quickly once out of the box, rehydrated and
planted.
After the brief water soaking,
you are ready to plant your daylily plants.
Dig a hole a foot deep by a
foot wide or wider depending on the daylily root size.
Place the removed soil on a
tarp or cloth spread , mix the removed soil with an equal amount
of compost soil or well rotted manure. Fill half to three quarters
of the hole up with the mixed soil. Make a small soil mound in
the center of the hole.
Place your daylily plant over
the mound like a draped octopus sitting on the mound. Then you
can fill in around your daylily plant making sure the daylily
crown is one inch below the surrounding grade surface.
Water your daylily plant to
settle it into the growing medium and to remove any air pockets
around the roots.
I then recommend a seasonal
fertilizer that will feed your daylily plant for the whole year.
Select Nutricote or Osmocote depending on your location and length
of growing season. Osmocote (4) month for the northern locations
and nutricote (9-12) month for the south. Only one or two tablespoons
of seasonal fertilizer is needed per daylily plant. Read the
package. This type of fertilizer is evenly released over several
months by watering or rain water.
Cover the fresh soil with a
pine/fir/spruce bark mulch or a wood chip product like Cyprus
chips in south to deter weed growth. The sun shining on the freshly
tilled soil will cause weed seeds to germinate.This layer of
bark mulch slows down this weed germination process. The bark
mulch also holds moisture longer during the summers dry times
keeping your daylily plant lush and blooming well.
Blue Hill Daylilies
Blue Hill, Maine
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