It’s January. I’m missing my gardens. I’m missing any gardens. Off to our local gardening center I went today. This is a thing I do – wander around, maybe buy a watch ’em grow garden, and maybe something additional. I suspect, no I know, I am not unique in doing this.
Today I got both. I could not resist.
The watch ’em grow garden
And a beautiful cyclamen
So fun!
I also bought a set of seed pods for when I start my daylily seeds. Now I’m committed to that because I have all the materials. I had started down the path of saving toilet paper and paper towel rolls to cut up as soil holders, like last year, but then I saw that the pods are ok for daylilies, so I’m going to try them. This will be my first year of growing only daylily seedlings. I had a bumper crop of ‘Just Plum Happy’ daylily seeds last fall, so I’m hoping to get something from those. Plus a few from our other daylilies. I’m also hoping this is the year I see flowers on the seedlings from the daylily seeds I planted out in the ground the past couple seasons.
And I’m playing again with the idea of trying to find a way to have daylilies up north. I know! How many times will I go back and forth on this? It’s just that I dream of naturalizing them. I know, however, they are deer yummies, and our trailcams have lots of deer on them. I have the two (failed hugelkulture) raised bed gardens up there from last year. I may try a seedling or two in there – from the ‘Just Plum Happy’ abundance. I could recycle some of my chicken wire from last year here to protect them. I know – ugly! We’ll see. Lots of time to decide.
Susan's Daily Garden 
Deer don’t like walking into things they cannot see. You can string fishing line across paths or around plantings to discourage them. And you can put flags on the line so people can see and avoid it. It is not fool proof. But it does work. I put this up around the bird feeders to keep the deer out. It is best done early to change their habits rather than done late at the last moment to protect the blooms. You may have to replace it a couple of times including for reasons other than the deer breaking it. It did work for me with the bird feeders. Once I put it up the deer stopped visiting the feeders.
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Thank you, John, for that information! That sounds so much nicer than chicken wire, and would allow much more space to garden. I really appreciate that advice!
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