How To Divide Overgrown Hostas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2023
- This is one way to do it. I actually did decide to ram the shovel in there after all. That’s part 2.
-Can you do this with other similar perennials: yes
-Is early spring or late fall the best time to do this: yes
-Is that when everyone has time to do it or feels like doing this: not necessarily
-Can it be a little messy after you do this: yes, but it will be fine and should recover. You can cut back the leaves after transplanting and it should produce new ones. Water a lot after you get them in the ground and keep watering every day until they stop drooping. If it’s very hot I water twice a day.
Go forth and harvest!
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It works, I do this every year
OK, I feel less insecure now about doing it wrong, lol!!
hostas are rather ... uh, “sturdy”.
It looks brutal, but that's the way to do it.
I work in a micropropagation lab just sub-cultured our hosta yesterday. This is almost exactly the process we use. I have a hard enough time getting tiny plants apart with a scalpel, I can't imagine trying to divide one this big.
Cool!
that’s so cool. i have two on either side of a ground level window. i’m going to split them and fill in the whole front of the window.
Yay to free plants!
It’s a tough hardy plant so a little aggression won’t hurt it’s feelings😄
I had some overgrown hostas in my front beds; couldn’t even get a clump up with a shovel. Ended up having to cut some of them so I could get to the roots and cut the clumps *before* I could shovel them up.
This is why I wish we didn’t have these I moved in and these are getting overwhelming what a nightmare
How can they grow so healthy and big when you put them in full sun like that I thought they were supposed to burn under full sun
Those were actually burned. That's why we moved them.
Did you know they are edible.
How do you get them to grow so big & which one is this one
Each type is a little different and some grow big and others can be vey small. This one is overgrown.
What are you saying? Obviously it was doing well in “full sun”.
Interesting point!
It does well in full sun until it gets really hot. Mine thrive from Spring until like mid July and then the sun absolutely fries them. (In North Carolina)