With regards to increasing growth and fans, I came across this on YouTube recently. It is a video made by Lynn Treece several years ago. He is an advocate of what he calls "raising the crown" to increase root growth and the production of increased fans....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This second video is made a year later showing some results and his method of planting thousands of daylilies when you are in a hurry.... :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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