It wasn't my brilliant idea to plant these things... they were already here when we moved in... I do not want them, I don't like them, I don't think they smell very good, and they're quite poisonous to animals.
I tried to dig them up in the Fall, and now come spring they're starting to sprout again. So I got out the shovel and tried to do a very thorough job of digging them up this time. They were barely even beginning sprout, yet holy smokes did these things ever have MASSIVE roots!
I went through the soil with my heavy duty shovel and tried to dig up every root and tuber I could find. I'm wondering if it's safe to plant anything else in that spot, because I worry that if I try to plant anything there, the daylilies will start popping up AGAIN and strangle it. I wanted to put catnip there, and even though catnip is also a very tough plant with big roots, I have the feeling it would lose in a battle against these things.
-
- Full Member
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:29 am
- Location: Southern Ontario, Zone 5
Too bad, I like day lilies. Some of the flowers are edible. They are crisp like lettuce and a little sweet. You just can't eat too many since it is also a diuretic. A yellow day lily is not only used for food but as medicine by the Chinese. I don't know if every day lily is edible, I only know that two of them are.
https://www.ediblecommunities.com/santab ... aylily.htm
https://www.eattheweeds.com/daylily-just ... -around-2/
https://www.ediblecommunities.com/santab ... aylily.htm
https://www.eattheweeds.com/daylily-just ... -around-2/
-
- Full Member
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:29 am
- Location: Southern Ontario, Zone 5
- rainbowgardener
- Super Green Thumb
- Posts: 25279
- Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:04 pm
- Location: TN/GA 7b