Daylilies

Daylilys are generally easy to grow given moderately fertile soil and enough moisture.

However, i f you are a daylily grower, an attack of daylily rust can be very disheartening. While your plants may not die, they look sick with rusty brown measles on the undersides of the leaves. The disease is hard to get rid of as the spores can over-winter in milder climates.

While cure of rust is difficult, the Bountea system can help prevention:

•  For transplanting daylilys, see Transplanting.

•  Apply Bountea Compost Tea with M3 added to the soil and daylily leaves, every two weeks during the growing season. For more fungal Bountea Compost Tea brew at lower temperatures (60 to 65F) and for 48 rather than 24 hours.

•  For added protection against rust, spray the leaves with Bountea Compost Tea to which one tablespoon of QLC has been added at the beginning of the brewing cycle.

Resources

There is extensive information on the web about daylily rust. It seems to have spread from Asia. Below is a letter from one of our customers with a daylily nursery.

I expected rust in the spring since your products were new to my garden and I thought they would not have time to make a difference. Fall has come and gone with no rust. I can say my plants have never looked this healthy. I saw less spidermite damage and less aphid damage.
- Jean Tibbs, Silver Hills Nursery

For general information on daylily rust:
www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ah748/rust.html

Mountain View Daylily Gardens' new format E-Zine, packed with useful information, gardening tips and lots of great bargains: www.daylily.com.au/ezine4.html

Information on fungal compost tea and daylilys from Elaine Ingham at the Soil Foodweb:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/compostteas/Week-of-Mon-20020520/000046.html

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