Hello everyone. My name is Brian and I'm from NW Ohio. I've been gardening since I was a kid, I'm 41 now and can't believe it.

5-6 years ago I got the daylily bug and haven't looked back. Bought a few acres of land in the country and have been working hard to get it squared away.

I enjoy making my own hybrid daylilies. I've got a lot of seedlings (some very nice too imo) and I plan on naming some this year. I have a major deer problem and began using milorganite today. Hope it helps. Last night I slept next to my daylily garden with my coonhound echo and she was able to get rid of them last night.... I've got a permit for killing deer out of season from the dnr and we're going to be working on that soon.

I grow some veggies and other stuff too. I'm a perennial guy. Don't like messing with annuals much. I'm starting a small vineyard and fruit growing area. Just got most of that area ready.

I am a welding instructor, I like to drink beer and smoke cigars. I have lurked long enough and thought I'd say hi!

Cheers!

Kingcohiba..

I had to look up milorganite it's a product made from waste. Such a fancy name. I hope it works .

How determined to sleep out with your daylilies. You must post them for us all to see.

I have a deer issues. They have eaten most of my daylilies. And many other plants.The hoses can't reach out to all the areas .Have you tried a motion detector water sprinkler it has helped keep them away from my hydrangeas near the house.

I have more issues with gophers and moles.. .OMG don't get me started...:sigh:

Post some daylily's soon.

Brian! Be sure you check out the Dayliles forum.

My single daylily is the only thing the deer don't eat in my yard.

Welcome!

Karen

Deer that have passed by your daylily.. which one is that do you know. Maybe that one would be safe to plant.
I have had three or four areas of daylilies coming back this summer the first I have seen of them in years . The deer keep them trimmed and eat every single bud. Same with Lily's. Maybe this season I will actually see a bloom or two.

bumplbea said: Kingcohiba..

I had to look up milorganite it's a product made from waste. Such a fancy name. I hope it works .

How determined to sleep out with your daylilies. You must post them for us all to see.

I have a deer issues. They have eaten most of my daylilies. And many other plants.The hoses can't reach out to all the areas .Have you tried a motion detector water sprinkler it has helped keep them away from my hydrangeas near the house.

I have more issues with gophers and moles.. .OMG don't get me started...:sigh:

Post some daylily's soon.

Yes, milorganite! Curt Hanson mentioned it to me the last time I visited his garden. But actually forgot about it until I read it was from the sewer facility in Milwaukee. The game warden emailed me info on it and said to give it a try.

I am happy to report that after one day of using it I had no new damage to the daylilies that I can see. We also got a deer tonight and it's chilling out in the fridge right now.

I will post a few pictures of my garden. It's a mess right now but hoping to get some woodchips soon to redress the rows. I am blown away by this, but I haven't had anything bloom yet this summer except for a bunch Stella I have a long a path. It's going to be popping in about a week though.

Australis said: Brian! Be sure you check out the Dayliles forum.

Will do! Thanks!

kqcrna said:My single daylily is the only thing the deer don't eat in my yard.

Welcome!

Karen

Ugh... I know how you feel.

A fellow buckeye!

bumplbea said:Deer that have passed by your daylily.. which one is that do you know. Maybe that one would be safe to plant.
I have had three or four areas of daylilies coming back this summer the first I have seen of them in years . The deer keep them trimmed and eat every single bud. Same with Lily's. Maybe this season I will actually see a bloom or two.

I think I have a very large herd in the property to the north.... With trying to make new daylilies I just can't do it. I should have had about 100 seed pods to harvest last year and they ate every single one. Everything I worked on last summer was gone after the deer.

I'm getting revenge this year though. Best of luck to you.

The only daylily I have is an old Stella. The deer never eat it. I used to have a bunch of Asiatic lilies, but the deer always ate them. I finally dug them up and gave to a friend.

Karen

Milorganite - yes made in Milwaukee, right down by the Lake front, smells horrible but I guess one way to get it into a different form for other use, many a time I've been by that plant. I could think of lots better things to be along Lake Michigan. I digress - welcome to the site!

Sorry about the deer, that in my area we also have a lot of. I'm in town so don't have to really deal with such but the occasional roamer. That would disappoint me if I had gone through all the work to make new flowers. Maybe your dog being out often will help. My MIL would swear by hers, she is rural and loaded with deer opportunists. I know that of late they have resorted to fencing around important things like their young fruit trees.

Lots of good people here - dive on in!

kqcrna...Yes Stella that's it the only one in my garden the deer haven't demolished. Thanks for the reminder it's full of buds and ready to bloom...

kqcrna said:The only daylily I have is an old Stella. The deer never eat it. I used to have a bunch of Asiatic lilies, but the deer always ate them. I finally dug them up and gave to a friend.

Karen

I love my regular lilies too. Have lots of them. Occasionally something eats them before they bloom and while it is disappointing, I can live with it. I think it's rabbits.

The deer eat my Stella. It's the first to go and the only one I don't really care if they eat! Not that I don't appreciate Stella, but I have a lot of it and I just don't work with that plant. I'd prefer them to leave it alone too though....

ScarletTricycle said:Milorganite - yes made in Milwaukee, right down by the Lake front, smells horrible but I guess one way to get it into a different form for other use, many a time I've been by that plant. I could think of lots better things to be along Lake Michigan. I digress - welcome to the site!

Sorry about the deer, that in my area we also have a lot of. I'm in town so don't have to really deal with such but the occasional roamer. That would disappoint me if I had gone through all the work to make new flowers. Maybe your dog being out often will help. My MIL would swear by hers, she is rural and loaded with deer opportunists. I know that of late they have resorted to fencing around important things like their young fruit trees.

Lots of good people here - dive on in!

Yes I'm going to have to build a fence. I just can't allow everything to be damaged and we can't stay out there 24 hours a day shooting deer. It's going to cost a fortune because the area I'm wanting to fence in is 25,000 square foot.

I think I'm going to have to do it in sections like Donald Trump is or something... But I think that fencing and hunting.... And now milorganite will help in the meantime.

Let us know how the fence wiring works. A tall boarder fence they jump like they are flying over my 6' hot wire fences.

ScarletTricycle said:Milorganite - yes made in Milwaukee, right down by the Lake front, smells horrible but I guess one way to get it into a different form for other use, many a time I've been by that plant. I could think of lots better things to be along Lake Michigan. I digress - welcome to the site!

Sorry about the deer, that in my area we also have a lot of. I'm in town so don't have to really deal with such but the occasional roamer. That would disappoint me if I had gone through all the work to make new flowers. Maybe your dog being out often will help. My MIL would swear by hers, she is rural and loaded with deer opportunists. I know that of late they have resorted to fencing around important things like their young fruit trees.

Lots of good people here - dive on in!

Yes I'm going to have to build a fence. I just can't allow everything to be damaged and we can't stay out there 24 hours a day shooting deer. It's going to cost a fortune because the area I'm wanting to fence in is 25,000 square foot.

I think I'm going to have to do it in sections like Donald Trump is or something... But I think that fencing and hunting.... And now milorganite will help in the meantime.

We also have a terrible deer problem. I'm in the suburbs and our township just hired a company to cull them, but they said it will probably be a couple of years until we see a difference.
Here's something that worked pretty well for a while. My husband strung up clear fishing line around the daylily bed, using several strands on posts, up to about 4' high. Now, deer could easily jump it, but they can't see it, and got spooked by touching the nearly invisible line when they went to eat the flowers. Until one got tangled in it, and brought some of the fencing down! So I went back to spraying! Good luck!

They are very curious . Here a link from Colorado a elk stuck in a lawn chair.

The deer here are so tame they don't even run when they see me. I have trained the dogs to chase them out. Still they eat all the buds off plants and flowering plants in the front I now cover in bird mesh. Works really well. But a pain to set up.

https://cbsloc.al/2LluUo4

That's wild!

Karen