2006-09-14 04:06:17 · 8 answers · asked by danrahal 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
just plant them somewhere that the construction wont be happening. make sure you plant them before it frosts and they will thrive through the winter as long as they are in ground. doesnt matter how much snow or how cold, youll have beauties in the spring!
2006-09-14 04:14:51 · answer #1 · answered by deet deet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How will the construction affect your garden? Hostas do die down for the winter and there would not be any growth to be hurt.
If the ground where they are will be disrupted..... and if you can not just move them to another spot, I would suggest getting an apple box or similiar size card board box or bozes, filling with peat moss and after removing all of this years growth, snuggle your hosta roots into the peat for a long winter nap in a cool dark place.
Understanding that you will have to plant them up in the spring.
2006-09-14 12:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by Barbados Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heal them in. Green houses and nurseries use a process called 'healing in' to keep young plants of all kinds healthy and available for sale. Use a loose mixture of soil (I use wood chips) piled on top the ground and plant the hostas in it, much like you would plant them in the ground. In fact, many professionals lean young trees at an angle so the root ball can be easily removed later. It doesn't really matter. The wood chips or soil are mostly to provide moisture and protection for the roots until you get them back to their permanent homes.
I have had several iris and hosta plants in addition to some lilacs and other tree saplings in a large pile of wood chips for two years now. Whenever I am ready to plant some, I take them from there and they come out very easily. I can dig them out with a pitch fork, rather than needing a shovel. Whatever wood chips come come with them is fine.
We live on an acerage and I got my pile of chips from a tree trimming company that was looking for some place to unload their truck after grinding up limbs through a shredder. They dumped two dump truck loads in the place I designated and I just love it. When ever I am doing some landscaping, or need some mulch, I just start up my chipper / shredder and run through how ever much I need. Makes it handy and much cheaper than having to buy bags of mulch. And I have literally tons of it.
Best of all, the men that dropped my chips off were not allowed to take payment for it, or even accept a beer in gratitude. What a deal.
2006-09-15 01:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by scubadiver50704 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go ahead and dig them up and move them to a safe spot- transplanting them in the fall should be fine. They'd be better in the ground over the winter than in a pot.
2006-09-14 11:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by Megan S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just dig some new holes somewhere else and transplant them for the winter. You can hardly kill a Hosta.
2006-09-14 11:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by Papa John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean hostas? You can dig them up and put them into pots. This also gives you an opportunity to divide the plants. Last year I did this and got 5 great plants from one congested one!
2006-09-14 11:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't even need to re-bury the buggers ... I've dug them out, moved them, forgotten them, and they are hale and hearty the next spring. It freezes here, too, for all those folks who say "not in my area" ... for some reason, they just can't be killed.
2006-09-14 19:21:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do not want to do alot of work, you can cut them back, and they will come back next year.
2006-09-14 12:19:01 · answer #8 · answered by just me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋