Seedfork's blog: First Daffs of the year and new daylily seedling beds

It has been some time since I posted here. Due to a family situation things have taken a drastic turn in our normal life style.
Hope to be more back in the normal swing of things later this year.
Today I joined the National Hemerocallis Society, not a big deal but highly unusual for me to join anything like that. I could get most of the benefits without being a member, I just felt like for all they do and all the info they provide and the fact that our database on daylilies here would not be nearly the same without their input, I should at least support them with a membership.
I just finished laying out my second new daylily seedling bed, now I have two new beds connected to each other. I plan to add at least one more this year for all the seedling I started. The beds are 10'x10' and the plants will basically be growing in shredded leaves that I built the bed up with. I added a lot of leaves and pine straw since the fall on a continuing basis, and today added a final layer of finely shredded leaves to the second bed. I have also been adding milorganite and high nitrogen lawn fertilizer to help with the decomposition of all the organic material. We had a good rain last night and I shredded up two truck loads of leaves yesterday so things were right to finish the second bed today. When I finished added the final layer of leaves I added another heavy dose of milorganite and high nitrogen fertilizer. Then I drug the hose over and wet everything down good even though we had just had a good rain.
The larger plants at the top are divisions of plants that have multiplied. The ones in pots are also. I also have a small bed of seedlings I grew from seeds received from Hemlady planted next to the top of my first new seedling bed.The stakes in the photo are 10 feet apart.

Here you can get an idea of the height the beds have been raised to with organic matter.
That is my neighbors house in the back ground, and those large tree trunks laying down form a back stop for all the organic matter. My neighbor cut some trees down and just laid the trimmed trunks along the property line and with the trees I had cut it made a perfect spot for the new beds.

I have my first daffodils trying to bloom after the rain, hard to believe spring will almost around the corner after having such a cold winter so far.


Here are how my little seedlings are looking. I found some old venetian vinyl blinds by the road the other day when out picking up leaves. I stripped them out and cut them into 4 inch and 8 inch sections for plant markers. I will use the 8 inch ones for the daylily seedlings. I am hoping to be able to just put the seedling numbers on the markers, but have yet to decided exactly how and when to assign the numbers. I have given each of the crosses their own number, but no need in making up markers until I see exactly how many I finally have to plant.
These are just some of them, I have many more that will have to be planted. All of these are planted in plastic cups that are then the cups were planted into the ground.

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