I desperately need to thin out my hostas.
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your brother is quite lucky. Look for a small clump of 3 leaves on the out side edge. Youse a trowel and break it off the main plant. Or slice the main clump into 4sections.....trans plant the 3 to a new garden
i learned this trick and it is so easy. Wait until early fall or early spring when the eyes are just popping up. Use a bulb planter and push down until you have it to the hilt. Pull up stright and your hosta and root will be inside the bulb planter. I use the eyes in the center of the plant and they will fill back up the next season. It is SO much easier than digging up and splitting. I do it after a rain when soil is more forgiving.
I love my hosta plants. check out this website with tutorial
www.wikihow.com
www.wikihow.com/Divide-a-Hosta
I dig mine up as soon as I see the little fingers coming out of the ground. This may sound cruel, but i get a large serated knife and just cut right through them. My hosta are so large I can usually get about 10 good size pots out of each one. I sell them in the spring once they have fully opened. The ones that I don't sell I just bury the pot in my garden, yes the whole pot, cover them with leaves during the winter and dig them up in the spring once I see them start coming to life.
i just cut piece size I want by using a shovel to cut off. Plant asap and all should do well.
Just pull them out and break them apart. They are hearty and transplant well. I have gone to loriope because of snails eating the hosta and causing holes in the leaves. Snails don't eat loriope.
Wish I lived closer to you, I could use a few more to fill in my mainly hosta front garden! I remember my mom had so many that when she had to thin some she gave away most of them to her friends and neighbors and their friends!
Thank you!
Send them here, baby! HA! :-)
Hey! Mail me some!