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profesora said:Roxy, I live near the Indiana/Michigan line. Here is my advice.

Pull the weeds, remove yellow and brown leaves, cut back the good leaves about four inches above ground. Water well daily until fall rain starts up.

In May, using a five gallon bucket, add one quarter full with alfalfa, and fill the bucket with water.

Select a sunny location to plant the fans the next day.

Dig the plants, divide them and remove old roots. Clean the fans of soil and soak in 10% bleach water for two hours, wash them off with plain water, and let them soak in plain water until the next day.

The next day, plant the fans with four cups of the alfalfa mix, and water the area.

Just to clarify profesora's excellent advice, cutting off the old roots doesn't mean cutting all the roots from the previous year off. When you dig your daylilies try to bring up some soil from around the plant at the same time. Then carefully wash that soil off of the roots. You will see some roots that are fresh and plump and you will see some roots that are dark and shriveled looking. Those are the ones to cut off.

And profesora, if I have misrepresented your meaning I apologize. This is how I have done it for three decades but I am sure there are many alternatives that will work as well.

Foxy, just remember that daylilies are tough. They have been left on the ground unplanted and survived.

Have fun.

Charley