Sounds like ground planting is probably just as easy. I used to just let the pods mature on plant until mostly dry, pick them and dry in the shed. Take the seeds and plant with some kind of moisture holding whatever - if I had leftover compost, I'd use that, or just good soil - under some other foiliage for protection. Keep it watered.

I guess mine didn't need to be frozen first. I have 9 or 10 daylilies and started out with 3.

That was one of the fun things about this plant. I was surprised it took me so long to *discover* it, once I figured out how easy it was to propagate. Great fun to garden with kids with this one. Always a flower to let them pick, seeds easy for little hands to manage, and this year we can divide and replant together.

You know you can eat the flowers too!

There is even a book of recipes! Delightfully Delicious Daylilies, by Peter Gail.

And yes, planting in the ground is feasible too. The seeds are really not much trouble as long as they get that cold treatment, somehow.

I am planning on doing some Nastursiums this summer and will try the flowers in salads.

Here are two pics of 2 of the 5 flats I am beginning to harden off.

The first picture is of the same flat I posted earlier in this thread.
(ornamental grass and 2 varieties of catmint--see my profile album)
The catmint on the left of this picture is more vigorous and is from seed I collected from my own plant upNorth. The one on the right is related...called Calamintha I bought these seeds from ThompsonMorgan. I don't know what the Calamintha is going to look like when it flowers. I am hoping the deer won't eat these, as they have a lemon scent to their leaves. That would be a big advantage for ME. LOL

The other is another one that was ready. (it has Butterfly weed, globe thistle, and a few ornamental grasses that were extra)

Today I am starting my gazanias indoors. I am doing that right into their cells so I won't have the tedious sensitive task of
transplanting, which means "losses".

Things are going pretty well. Only 4 major germination failures out of 16!