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Removing Crabgrass from Dormant Daylilies

Dig up the entire daylily clump now (or in spring), carefully remove the crabgrass, and replant the daylily. Mulch to protect from freezing if done in winter. This eliminates the grass without herbicides that could harm the daylily.

Perennials: Crabgrass in New Sod: Source and Control; Killing Grass in Daylily Beds: Selective Herbicides and Physical Barriers; Crabgrass in 2-Week Bermuda Sod: Tilling Woke the Seed Bank; Crabgrass in 10x10 Patch: Topsoil Won't Smother It; Controlling Dallisgrass in St. Augustine: Spot Treatment Strategy; Crabgrass Takeover in Connecticut: Soil First, Then Tall Fescue; Crabgrass in New Sod: Why It's Usually a Temporary Problem; Crabgrass-Dominated Connecticut Lawn: Fall Renovation Plan; Non-Chemical Crabgrass Removal in a Large Yard; Daylily Proliferations: Free Clones on the Flower Stem

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