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Hostas

much as i'm a competent landscaper and do basic maintenance for clients i have never claimed to be a plantsman...I love hosta's and have planted lots in my own garden over the last 3 years, some of them are now quite large and need splitting, i have read up on them and splitting them looks easy enough, in reality how rough can i be with them because i dont want to kill the parent plants?Also how much of the fleshy bit in the ground do i need to put in a pot to get a new plant?Thanks for any helpDavid

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  • http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/hostas-dividing/

    have a look at this link
  • thanks

    i watched the vid and got brave have just lifted and seperated the 8 large plants that form 1 bed in a damp patch of my garden.

    in each case i cut them in half left half in the ground, the half i removed got cut into between 3 and 6 pieces depends how big the parent was, all the sections thus created needed 8" plant pots to fit in.

    i currently have 20 new plants sat in pots waiting to be found new homes :-) and a load more to pot up in the morning :-)
  • Hi David - I've just been doing this,

    Two years ago one of our customers moved house and asked us if there was anything we'd like from her garden - she had eleven different Hostas – yes please!

    They went into our plot as they were for a year and last week I started to make new plants. Depends how old your clump is - but if it is old and quite wide you do have to put some wellie into it and I reckon it's best done when the shoots are about an inch high.

    After lifting I hosed as much soil off as I could - two forks back to back into the crown and push handles away from each other – I found that I had to take smaller pieces off the sides first and then I could tease the individual shoots apart.

    Replant a couple of inches apart each way and put a layer of hort grit around to hopefully deter slugs.


  • As an aside, if you're planting them in pots go a bit undersized. Hostas seem to love having their roots restricted.
  • they're only going in pots till i find new homes for them, some in my garden some to be sold onto clients...
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