Dig Up Dollars in Your Front Yard
“You can make from $395 to $6,000 per year from
a daylily bed that’s only 16-feet long and 12-feet
wide” says Helen Wheeler Boykin of Hattiesburg,
Mississippi.
In a small daylily bed that size, you can plant 79-double
fans of daylilies in the early spring. The following
spring those daylilies should double. Then you can sell
the increase, generally one-half of your crop, and get
your money back in one year’s time. When the late
spring of the third year of your daylily crop arrives,
your daylily  crop
again will have doubled, and you once more can sell
one-half of your crop and make a profit this time.
“You’ll still have some of your original
stock of daylilies from which to grow more daylilies,”
Boykin explains. “Daylilies can provide a reliable,
extra income as well as color and beauty for your home
and garden. Many types of daylilies, usually a double
fan, sell for only $10, but some daylilies sell for
up to $300 per double fan. Your customer base will determine
the price of daylilies you sell the most.”
Today many families earn $1,000 and more each year by
selling not only daylily plants but also daylily seeds.
Daylilies are beautiful annual flowers that multiply
quickly, don’t require much upkeep and are drought-resistant.
They can grow in almost any part of the United States
and southern Canada and come in thousands of varieties
of shapes, colors and sizes.
Daylilies for College
With the rising costs of college educations, some families
have begun raising and selling daylilies and putting
the monies made into college funds for their children.
Here’s another twist on that idea. Jason Berryhill
of Birmingham, Alabama, planted daylilies to help finance
his college education once he started to college.
“I helped someone with a daylily garden set up
his computer system, so I received my initial stock
of daylilies without having to take any money out of
my pocket,” Berryhill says. “From what I’ve
read, studied and learned from the daylily growers I’ve
talked with, I expect to make from $3,000 to $8,000
a year from the 1/4-acre of raised beds of daylilies
I’ve planted.”
To learn how to raise, grow, care for and sell daylilies,
go to www.hunterstorch.com where you can see photos
of hundreds of daylilies and learn about them. Click
on “Garden Tips” to receive free tips for
raising daylilies.
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