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Posted by bluesyblue4u2 8b Northwest Florida (My Page) on Sun, Nov 8, 09 at 8:07
This question may already have been answered; but I could not locate an answer. After 40 yrs in the same house and 66 yrs of family owning the property, we are having to relocate. After mid-January I will not be allowed to get any of my plants, so I need to move as many as I can now. I just don't have places at this point to plant them. But, I want to take as many of my daylilies as I can. Can I dig them up and move them right now... It will be about a good month before I can get them in the ground again. Could I keep them in buckets of water..just covering their roots or can I cut them back and clean them... then heel in somewhere and replant them in Feb/March. I have many and I enjoy each and every one of them. I have found homes for some. Any and all advice I can get would be very welcome.
thanks, dee
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RE: Having to move daylilies
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| If possible, it would be better to pot as many up as you can. I know that's more work initially, but then you could safely leave them w/o having to rush to get them planted. If that isn't an option, then your second choice of cutting them back and then heeling them in might work. When you put them in water you have to be careful to change the water rather frequently or they can rot. |
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| Right now is a a great time to move daylilies in FL! I'm waiting on some friends to get their space ready, then I'll be doing it. I would water the daylilies, dig them and leave as much soil on the roots as you can, and put them in plastic grocery bags. If you water them occasionally and keep them in the shade, they should be fine, especially during the cooler, winter months. I would cut them back. I wouldn't soak them in water because of my own experience. Plus, you would be changing water every other day. Not fun. Good luck with your move! I'm sure your daylilies will enjoy it. Beachlily |
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| I agree with Beachlily's advice as along as you are staying in the same zone. If you are moving more toward my area & can't plant for another month or so, I would either pot them, or heel them in, somewhere protected, covering them with leaves. |
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| I'm not sure if this would work where you are moving to but I was given a tip of buying some bags of garden soil, cutting open the bag lengthwise and planting in the bag of soil as a temporary holding area till I could put them in permanently. Julia |
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| I was give a bunch of Salmon Sheen daylilies and couldn't plant them right away, I put them in boxes under trees and covered them with leaves. I made sure I watered them every day and they did fine until I got them planted. They were in the boxes about 2 weeks, and were bare root. If you leave soil on them like beachlily said and put them in bags or boxes you should be able to hold them a longer. Sharon |
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| I live in Rhode Island (Zone 6) I used the grocery sack method. I dug mine with rootball attached and moved in November (not the right time for my area) because I was moving. The lilies spent the winter (I labeled the bags with permanent marker with the plant name) in an unheated garage. I did lose a couple but I think they dried out.
Since Florida is pretty temperate I think you could do the same very successfully. remember to water (poke holes in the bottom of the bag for drainage). Good luck. |
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Thank you all for so many good ideas. It gives me a good idea of how to go about moving them! I will not be able to plant anything until at least March as where we are moving to has no landscaping...at all. The soil needs to be worked and amended..quite a job! But at least your ideas have given me some hope of keeping them alive! THanks again so much!!!!
dee |
RE: Having to move daylilies
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| I'm in the process of moving out the entire stock of very mature clumps from a former display garden that I purchased last spring. I am fortunate in that I don't have to keep moving in the winter as where the plants are coming from was very neglected and filled with invasive nutgrass. I have to literally divide each plant to double or single fans and completely wash the roots as if I were selling them in order to keep from transplanting the weeds to the new space. Between April 28th and September 15th I managed to dig, divide, wash, and replant about 200 daylilies which included prepping the new garden space several times as the community garden where I'm temporarily putting them is organic and would not let me use roundup for weed control. I had to hand dig the entire plots at least 3 times before I could get weed barrier plastic down. I only have weekends and evenings to work on this as I have a day job too. I too used the plastic grocery sacks. It worked great. I put the plant labels right in the bag with the cleaned plants then tied the tops shut until I got them home. That may not work if you have large clumps and leave the dirt on but you could use kitchen garbage bags or other larger bags just the same. With the soil on they can live in the bags just fine so long as you keep them moderately watered. Consider it a temporary pot. Just make sure the foliage is out of the top of the bag so it gets air. With my washed, bare root plants I did soak them in buckets of water for up to two weeks. You can put a capful of bleach in the water to help keep it from getting gross. Then you don't have to change it so often. I had to move a few out after September 15th (our 1st frost date) but just to empty rows in the same garden so I didnt' have to worry yet about the weed problem. It worked well to dig the entire rootball and plop it into a new hole. That goes much faster. Best of luck. |
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