Hey Amy,
Daylillies are really easy.
Plant them with the roots in the ground and the foilage above ground.
The crown of the daylilly should be at soil level.
While daylillies are nearly impossible to kill, it's marginally better to keep the roots very near the soil surface, and then mulch deeply (an inch or 2) with wood chips or pine straw or any other kind of straw.
The important thing is to prepare the soil well.
Did you read my page on
soil work?
Turn the soil with a shovel a foot deep, minumum.
Add lots of
compost / manure.
Turn that in, add more on top.
plant daylillies, water, mulch around the plants.
When I turn soil and make new beds, I usually make them a minumum of 2 ft wide and usually 3 or more feet wide.
I just did a daylilly bed for a client that was 4 foot wide and one for myself that is 6 foot wide. (I have a lot of daylillies)
Thanks,
Stone