Can I just mow them down or do I use a scissor? What is best/easiest? Thanks.
2007-11-24 01:12:00 · 6 answers · asked by M L 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You really don't have to do anything to the hostas. You can cut off the tops after they're brown, if you want to, but it's not necessary. They're easy plants to deal with. They will sprout right out next spring whether you trim them off or not.
2007-11-24 01:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by ~RedBird~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just cut them at about one inch from ground. Don't pull them! Just cat with scissors or whatever is available ans then let them go. Next Spring they will come back even better than this past year, If you like you can trim the root bulb by cuting it in half or fourths and replent each group separately. You'l have even more next Spring!
2007-11-24 01:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have over 300 hostas in my garden, and I just leave them and let nature cover them with leaves. Helps protect them for the winter and I clean up everything in the spring. Then you can just pull the dead leaves off along with the tree leaves that have acted as mulch all winter. Hostas are among the easiest plants to grow, in 40 years of gardening I have never lost one.
2007-11-24 02:42:58 · answer #3 · answered by Isadora 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wait till they are browned bu the frost. The energy needs to go back into the roots. They you can either use a string trimmer to cut off the dead browned leaves or I just get a sharp pair of shears, gather the dead leaves up and cut them off.
PS they make good compost too!
2007-11-24 01:16:51 · answer #4 · answered by Deborah S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i trim mine with the motor strimmer, straight through, will come back lush and fervent next spring, also good to hear the slugs scream
2007-11-24 01:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by MICHELE C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kill them kill them I have some I can't get rid of been trying for years...I call them Hostiles for a reason.
2007-11-24 01:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by angrygumball2002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋