Day lilies have a high yield per mu. One mu of real estate costs 3,000-5,000 kilograms of fresh flowers and 400-500 kilograms of dry goods. Currently, one kilogram of fresh flowers costs 3-5 yuan, and one kilogram of dry goods costs 12 yuan. The net profit from flowers can reach about 5,000 yuan/mu, and the net profit from dry goods can reach 2,000 yuan/mu.
Day lily has high nutritional value. Day lily can be sold as flowers and eaten as vegetables in the vegetable wholesale market. It can also be processed into dry goods and sold in the wholesale market. It can also be made into small packages of specialty products and can even be made into sauce. Pickled vegetables and other ready-to-eat products in small packages are deeply processed, rich in nutrients and trace elements, and have broad development prospects.
Day lilies do not need to be picked by young adults, making full use of the surplus rural labor force. After day lilies are planted, the soil needs to be turned every year in the sticky soil areas of the south. Soil turning is usually in autumn and winter, and the picking season is the hottest in summer. At that time, young people were reluctant to pick day lilies, but picking day lilies does not require much physical strength. Just like picking tea leaves, children studying in rural areas and middle-aged and elderly people aged 40-70 can pick it.
Daylily is native to China and is distributed in various provinces and regions south of the Qinling Mountains in China (including southern Gansu and Shaanxi, excluding Yunnan) as well as Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong. It is also distributed in Japan and Southeast Asia. Born on hillsides, valleys, wastelands or forest edges below 2000 meters above sea level. The main production areas include Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces, especially Shaodong and Qidong in Hunan, which account for more than half of China's output. Quxian in Sichuan and Dali in Shaanxi are also famous.
Daylily is cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and semi-shade tolerant; it has no strict soil requirements and can be grown on edges or hillsides. It can be grown in sandy soil, clay soil, plains, and mountains, but red and yellow soil is the most suitable. Well, avoid making the soil too wet or stagnant. Daylily has a wide range of light adaptation. The above-ground part of daylily is not cold-tolerant, but the underground part is resistant to -10℃ low temperature.