Oh no!!! How disappointing! Try Liquid Fence or put Milorganite down next year.

I['m sharing a bitter laugh with you - see my post 'Deer Pruning' . I bought a bottle of Deer-Ex concentrate and pour a little in my watering can and just sprinkle the tops of the flowers now - much easier than getting out the other spraying apparatus I had. Believe me I'm keeping on top of my oriental lilies too - I got to see all my Asiatics this yr for the first time. But the daylilies - there are too many and they were spread out and I missed some.

Oh, I feel for you!

Maybe a few will show you that they are rebloomers. That happened ot me with some that a rabbit ate off this year.

I use a secret weapon (well not really so secret) to prompt new growth & bloom. It's a homemade fertilizer made from beer, epsom salts, and ammonia. I posted the recipe over on the iris forum. Here's the link...

Here is a link that might be useful: homemade fertilizer recipe

That is SOOOOOO disappointing. Getting seedlings going is lots of work, and it would be gut wrenching to find your first blooms all mowed off. I really do hope you will get at least some that put up another scape or two this year.

Linda

That is so disgustibg too,I have that happen all the time here,right in town.Lucky so far this year they haven't ate up the daylilies,but ate every bud off my roses,and Petunias.

Jean

Sorry your going to miss the opening of your seedlings. I agree that Liquid Fence is pretty good at repelling the deer and rabbits.
Hopefully you may get some reblooms.

Julia

I am so sorry to hear your story. I know how much I looked forward to my seedlings blooming this year and I try to put myself in your place, but it is so hard to imagine how badly your feel. I hope some are rebloomers and you will get new scapes. Maybe some of the solutions offered by others will work to keep the deer away.

Ann