transplanting

Last year, as readers might recall, I planted seeds I had gotten when I ‘married’ some daylillies out in my garden. I got little plants, which I put into pots for the summer last year and then toward the end of the summer, I planted them out into their own little nursery bed. Saving and Growing Your Own The photo at the top is of them, this morning – and boy, how THEY have grown. They are probably three times the size of what they were when I planted them out. Last summer, while the little daylilly plants were busy growing, I did some more ‘marrying’ on the daylillies in my garden and saved those seeds in a dry paper towel inside a plastic bag in my fridge. Earlier this spring, I again put them into one of my handy-dandy ‘plastic box with a snap on lid that I got some salad mix in from the grocery store’ and those, too, have come up. I will plant those into pots with grow mix and at the end of this summer, I will put those into the nursery bed. I will also transplant the daylillies that you see in the photo above into more permanent spots at the front of our house. They are probably a good two years away from flowering but part of the fun of this is the waiting part. (more…)