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kylaluaz said:@Newyorkrita, I'm hoping Rita will come in here and help me out with this one, to do with mulching daylilies with leaves.

The daylilies are still showing green but we are having below freezing temps every night now, though the days go above freezing. My question is, should I just mulch and cover them now? And, like, how deep? I guess I am asking also for the other areas that still have plants showing green: do you just layer leaves right on top of everything?

I am realizing I've never dealt with this kind of seasonal change before. When I have lived in cold climates, it hasn't been this back and forth thing: either it was too cold and frozen and snow-covered to even think about gardening, or it was never really an issue with frost heaving and that.... because it rarely froze down in the ground and never for long at all.

So. Big newbie question going on here, about this.

Well here I just collect fall leaves and mulch in November. I don't care if the plants have already frozen or not. I just mulch when I can. I try to put the leaves around the daylilies but always some blow over. But they always puch thru in the spring.