The initial cost is quite expensive, but the thing is to price shop which can be overwhelming in itself sometimes. And buying bigger quantities will save $$$ in the long run if you can do that. The alfalfa pellets I use are pretty cheap anyway, but I get the slow release fertilizer in 40 or 50lb bags. Some places charge an arm and a leg for it, but others charge a whole lot less like at locally owned feed and seed stores or nurseries. The chicken litter comes in 40 lb bags and James and Fred both buy it by the ton so it comes out cheaper and I get mine from them. The water soluable fertilizer I use I got in a 25lb bag which will last along time. We all use pine bark with sand mixed in as our soil in the beds and pots then add the fertilizer and such to it. We get it by the semi-truck full so it comes out really cheap, but most people can't buy 60 yds at a time. If I couldn't get that much I would go to the feed and seed and buy a truck load (about 1 yd). It still comes out cheaper than buying the bags at Lowes.
You really don't need a lot of the new daylilies to use. If you look at the parentage of some of the new ones, they use older ones still.
Stay warm yourself. I hope it doesn't get any colder for you.
