Learn how, when, and why to cut your hosta plants back in the Fall. Also learn some tips on keeping the deer away from your hosta as well as how to stop the spread of diseases such as Hosta Virus X. This was such a satisfying garden bed cleanup!
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One of my hosta beds measurements are 60×8. I have other around my yard. I did a new one around tree further away from my house this year. I was concerned about deer. I put a plastic owl on a post. Had no deer damage. It's my last bed to cut back. It feels good
Wow I thought I had a lot of Hosta's. I have over 75 different varieties and double that because I have divided them and moved them into more spots. 20 of them are mini's and I keep them in pots and just bring pots into garage over winter. My neighbour has a city tree that towers over my property and it drops thousands upon thousands of ugly leaves that have warty bumps on them and they fill my garden beds it's horrible. I can't wait to move next spring so I never have to deal with that again. My new home is a blank slate and I will be choosing my trees carefully not to get any like that. I also have a choice of my city tree so I will be choosing a native Serviceberry tree. I love them and they do drop leaves but they are tiny. Lots and lots of evergreens will be going in as they give winter interest.
Irish spring soap along my fence line has kept the mice and voles from coming from my neighbours unkept vegetable and garbage patch into my yard….it definitely works and I used 6 bars in spring and they are still there and haven't broken down after lots of rainfalls.
Beautiful hostas, Vita Loca!! ❤
Some of it looks like it could possibly be poison ivy. I cut my zinnias to the ground two weeks ago and staked a plant I couldn’t remember planting. The next day, covered in a rash I went back outside to I spect it further and to my horror discovered it was poison ivy 🤯.
I think the weed you were pulling is called Bishop’s Weed and is very invasive! It came into my garden when a friend unknowingly gave me some plants from her garden. All you need is a tiny root and BINGO you have a garden full of Bishop’s Weed!
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I have never cut my hostas, good to know, that I better should. Greetings from Germany
Great idea about Irish Spring shavings. I know a nut grower that hangs bars of Irish Spring from the trees. She says it does repel the deer.
I found that Irish spring keeps the deer out! I put the bars in the food processor like a piece of cheese 😊
Question… when is the best time to split the hostas?
Can you give a list of other common perennials that should be cut back? I have lillies, and iris which I know get cut. But I put in a perennial bed and can’t remember a lot of their names off hand.
Naughty deer got into my beet greens this year. Boy was I mad! But, after a few minutes I let it go. Part and parcel of living in beautiful New Hampshire.
I live a little further north than you in NH Zone 5a. I was looking at my hostas yesterday and wondered if I should cut them back now or wait a little. I opted to wait because I wasn't sure but after this video I'm going to cut them back on our first rain free day. Thanks.
So many hostas! Wow… super jealous. But we're right there with you on cutting these back in the fall.
I use a perimeter of Milorganite , it protected my azaleas and hostas living on 8 acres of woodland
I never cut mine back. I rake leaves over them and they come back fine the next year. I just rake the beds in Spring. I also toss my cuttings from porch plants into the one by my porch and it composts the dirt under the hosta. Been doing that for 8 yrs. They started out 3 plants and are now 30 ft worth as border.
Has the word "prune" been forgotten?