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Mar 5, 2018 3:02 PM CST
Name: Dr. Demento Jr.
Minnesota (Zone 3b)
First thing to do is clean ALL th debris away so you know exactly what is what and debris is not catching hold and spreading weed killer.

After you clean the area get a vegetation killer and an art paint brush and paint the vegetation killer on the quack grass.

It is not one and done, keep at it all summer and the quack grass amount should diminish but if it is tangled in the roots of your daylillies either you dig them up and clean out the roots or all your effort is a waste of time.
When you dig up the flower make the hole bigger than the root so you can find ALL quackgrass roots that are infesting you flower.
I learned this the hard way and will have to dig up some daylillies a third time this year.
There is NO easy way to fix this.
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