Perfect video! No unnecessary 5 minute preamble. Learned exactly what I wanted to know… when and how to divide a hosta. He even had clay dirt like my soil.

Straight to the point! Thank you for this video, I really loved that you waited til your hosta grew to show an update😍 My hostas definitely need this as soon as our weather lets me lol

I divide mine anytime even after they are pretty big like right now. I soak them in a water bucket overnight and plant them the next day. Always do well for me.

I've divided hosts for years. I have them all over the place. I have even thrown them into the woods and they always come back. My grandmother used to say if you manage to kill a hosta you don't deserve to live!🤣🤣🤣

Extremely Hardy and gets prettier each year. Perrenials are worth little extra money. The gift that keeps on giving❤️

One hos ta go here , one hos ta go there til all done.

Thanks for posting this informative video! I especially like how you followed up with how the transplants were doing 2 weeks later. Mine are just sticking out of the soil now so I'd better hurry up and get working on it! Love hostas on the shady side of my house!

Love hostas. Really like my moist, clay soil. I have to admit I basically take a spade to mine for division. Works every time. Great vid sir.

I enjoyed the view after a few weeks a lot. That is simply perfect 😍

Thanks for a quick, easy and concise video that got straight to the point. I believe I can do this now

Great video👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 You got to the POINT! Just what I needed. Thanks for sharing.❤️🙏🏽❤️

Just what I needed! Thank you so much!

Thanks for showing the right way to do it. I cut mine in half with a large knife while they’re still in the ground. Then I dig up half and plant it elsewhere. I have hundreds of hostas of all types and I’ve never lost one. I left a couple in containers in the garage (during MN winter) and when I returned home in May they were about one foot tall and white. They’re now green and healthy.

Thank you I always dug the holes a little bit deeper and probably covered them up more than necessary.

Looks great! Thank you for sharing this. Very clear and nicely done!!

Great simple video. Thanks.

Beautiful plants

Hostas may be divided any warm part of the year. A single plant stalk with lots of damage will survive. However, a division with little or no damage will grow faster. I have also planted one inch of root with the crown and it is growing. Andrew

That was great! My wife and I love Hostas and I think it’s about time to do some dividing!

Love your videos - great job!

Simple, very helpful video. Off to propagate my hostas!

Exactly what I needed, thank you 😊

Fantastic video! Thank you!

I used a sharp shovel to divide my hosta. I couldn’t pull it apart at all. It was pretty large so maybe over the years the roots became intertwined. I’ve eaten the shoots as a stir fry and they are pretty good.

Thanks. Mine are getting so big and spreading so this is helpful.

Great tips I will be trying this!

Wonderful and extremely helpful video. Thank you!

Thanks. Been wondering when the best time to divide hostas is. Great video.

I really have to divide my massive clump of hostas 😂 I always say next year!! Great video my friend 💚🌱

Great instruction video! I have fallen head over heels with hostas and this video is very helpful as I have many that I will be able to split next spring and distribute around the yard and to friends. Thanks very much!!

I've got two hostas that are huge. I've grown them in containers now for about twenty years. I've transplanted them just this year to a bigger container.

Beautiful family!

Thank you for this!! 🤩

THANK YOU GREAT TIPS

Thanks we need to separate our also. Good instructions and timely too.

Just came across your channel. Great suggestions. ❤

Well done! Thank you.

I know what I’m doing tomorrow! Thanks!

I just dug up hundreds of these this morning. Some are so tightly packed together, solid. 👀 I will replant them along my fence line. I hope they take & look pretty. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for sharing

Excellent information. Many thanks.

Nice. Thanks from Virginia!

Thank you - plus, thanks for the mulch under the roots method

Thank you! So helpful.

Thanks. Good refesher

Thank you! Very helpful 🤗👏👏👏

Thanks for the video.

Like this Gardener Guy!

I had a potted hosta in the shed over winter and when I went out this spring it was growing nicely just wanting water and some sun. I use Irish Spring soap in a spray water bottle to fend off deer. Just shave it with a knife put in the bottle and shake, they don't like the smell. You'll need to spray after rains to keep effective.

Thank you for the information..l was looking for help...Love my plants ..🌱

I use an old serrated kitchen knife to carefully cut up the clump. Works GREAT!

Thank you, very informative... friendly and soothing voice, also... quite pleasanrt o listen to and I learned alot in 7 minutes!

I just dig them up when they get too big, use a saw to cut them into 4 pieces, then replant them. I’m now up to 35 in my yard, and giving them away. I luv hostas!

I bought a hosta last year and it really didn't do well in the garden, slugs and generally all different sized leaves, no shape basically. I put it in a pot a couple of weeks ago and there's around 6/7 shoots now. Was nice to see you demonstrating from shoots too growth. Thanks👍

Thank you!! I love my hostas!! They need separating bad! Never knew the best time to separate them! And they will shoot up before you know it! Hopefully I can get them next spring!

Great content Thanks for this …. I’ll go and divide right now

Thank you very helpful.

Thank you very much

I had 3 massive patches of these things wider then I could reach around to pick each one up. It took 2 grown me me and my neighbor and someone supporting the middle from snapping under their own weight to a trailer. I had hated them for years and finally got so tired of pouring gas on them. Covering them up. Parking stuff on top of them for years praying they would die. They never did. They only grew larger and larger lol. U wish I took pictures of it. But I got to looking at them and I thought uk ...smaller plants and all these would look good around certain places of the house. I never knew it would work. I just knew I wanted this thing moved from this spot. So I spent a whole weekend with a machete and 6 friends cutting all 3 of them up with saw machetes. We done it the most efficient way possible. And none of us cared enough to even find out if it would work. We just enjoyed the weekend. We thought it might but no one knew for sure the way we was cutting and the time of year and all. ( They where bulbs) we got over 1700 plants from those 3 large knots of hospise plants. (I have photos of them after but not as one large clump.) I used around 550 on my property. And split the rest with everyone who helped. Some sold them who didn't have a property for them. Others gifted them. And others used them like my self around their homes. Almost everyone kept a few who had a place for them. And it's always cool to see them when I see them. Lol. Toughest plants I ever seen

Thank You for this video, I didnt realize how easy it was to care for Hosta's

They are delicious. A very good 'lettuce'.

I knew nothing about hostas when I bought one last year. I thought it died haha but then I noticed about 8 fingers coming out of the pot this last week or so. Now because of you... im going to try and divide it :) Im in a zone 8b portland. How amazing. Thank you kindly!

I love hostas and so do our the Georgia deer and rabbits. I order a wonderful product (I think it's from Nebraska) called Deer Defeat. IT WORKS FOR 1-2 months, even with our wet Georgia weather! It's an awesome product and those pesky deer and wascally wabbits just pass on by!!!! Yay!!!!

Love Hostas❤️. In Deep South I highly recommend shade more than sun during summer months. The sun will fry the beautiful foliage. They will not die if mulched but you will have to wait until next spring to enjoy. Jillions of Hostas. Loved for their foliage! Not flowers. South Hostas will retain their beautiful dark green color if they have afternoon shade.

I love my blue Angel hostas...thanks for this video

I have always separated my hostas in the Spring. I feel plants are just starting to grow for the year and are the strongest. Also, the frosts are probably all over.

Thanks for the great info! I never really noticed hostas until I found out that you can eat them. Now those shoots you show here are one of my favorite spring vegetables! They're just great with pesto sauce. In fact, I did a taste test video on this subject where I compared steamed and grilled hosta shoots. They're kind of like asparagus, but with a little more of a bite. Just perfect with a pesto sauce! :)

My ducks loved eating the new hasta crowns

i use an old bread knife to cut mine up, i do the same with my Agapanthus too

Well, I am a bit late for this year, but now I will know when for next year.

I keep deer out of my hostas bed by taking a half bar if Irish Spring soap, place it in a piece of fine netting that you can buy at Walmart for 2/3 dollars a yard, then tie it to a stake and stake it in the ground in your hosta bed and the deer will just walk away from it without even touching it. They just don't like the smell of Irish Spring. Works for me!

How did you know I was eyeing my big ole hostas 😂!

Don't hire me to divide up the hostas, because I'd eat them. The young spring shoots are one of my favorite treats.

How many shoots do you want in each clump? And how far apart should you replant them? Thanks! This was so helpful!

Can you over winter them in your homes?

I just had some for dinner and they are very much like asparagus .

Natural Slug Control (northeast US): consider to build a 'loose stack' rock wall of pile near the hostas, etc. Garter snakes, Milk snakes and tiny Eastern Brown Snakes will soon use the rocks as dens and hibernation spaces .... and they LOVE to eat slugs. Monitor the 'wall' / rock pile to be sure that you haven't attracted venomous Copperheads if they are common in your area.

We feed our outdoor buddies aka rabbits all year round. They love corn on the cob, chunked carrots, and occasionally very small hay bales. Other than that ours seem partial to daisies and do not seem the least bit interested in the Hostas mine are huge and need to be separated next year it seems as I was too late in doing it this spring. New house with new plants that were established by the previous owners.

Fertilize?lime? Water in? Spacing , my others are 6 foot apart and nearly touch each other! Mix varieties, like regular and Zebra? Is June, in full leaf now, building large hosts shade garden, ok to dig, transplant in full leaf? What about fall transplant? Indiana winter concern, my existing hosts winter well!

I have deer and rabbits, but they won't eat them until they're large and beautiful. Once they eat them, they don't bother them anymore. Once they bloom flowers they'll eat them a little too I don't do anything special to them in the fall and they grow back every year. I live in the Midwest and it gets 30 below sometimes, but they keep coming back, bigger and stronger each year.

Save your eggshells, let them dry out, then break them up into small fragments & spread around base of Hosta's, slugs & snails will not cross it. I had a lot of problems until I heard of that tip, it definitely works. Slugs & snails are also similar to humans in that they don't like itchy stuff on their skin, organic woollen pest pellets do the same thing & doesn't kill the local wildlife or birds who eat dead snails & slugs as the blue chemical poisonous ones do I also find I can't water my Hosta's enough, I absolutely drench them regularly, the more I water them the bigger they get, can't overwater them imo, a bit like mint. I can get them to grow 3.5 to 4 foot across.

THANKS for good info NO MUSIC. ))))

I just dig them up and cut up them with a shovel, lol. I have dozens of varieties and they grownlike crazy so I don't woryy if i kill few in the process.

I found the best way to separate them is to soak them in a tub of water. Rinse away the dirt and untangle the roots. When planting them put some Milogrant in the hole before planting them.

Hostas are edible! That first clump, cut each sprout off at the dirt, clean and sauté with onion and garlic like asparagus. Delicious!

Great video. I am being overtaken by Hostas! The rabbits here love them

Coral Bells/Heuchera are also edible. It's very bitter but totally safe to eat, and is used medicinally by some Native American tribes.

Did I miss the boat if I do this in summer

I divide them in winter. There is no growth and I cut the lump with a breadknife. Works great.

They are from the asparagus family and they kind of taste like asparagus too.

I’m in zone 9 would you recommend sphagnum moss or mulch underneath?

What do you use for your mulch, it’s so much more fine than what I buy. Do you make your own?

What happens to the Hostas after you harvest the sprouts? Do they come back or die?

I live in the southwest where it’s hot and dry. You cannot plant hostas in full sun. They will burn up and dry. So all my hostas are planted in heavy shade and watered every three days. They are all doing beautiful.

What do you have gloves on. I'm 73 and only put them on when it's cold out. Like South Dakota winter cold.

Hostess are extremely hardy, and cover lots of real estate, so less mowing. I dig them out, and use an old long blade bread knife to cut them apart. I’ve told neighbors and friends, don’t buy, I have some to give.

I have the original 70 year old variety, solid green, not verigated, seeds will grow very readily, they are extremely hardy, will not be harmed by freeze or frost. So hardy that I can dig a clump up & throw them in the shade not planted & they grow well for years. The only problem is they multiply half as much more each year & will take over an area.

Steamed or lightly sauteed hosta spears are delicious. They taste a lot like asparagus and, in my area, are in demand by higher end restaurant chefs.

I've never heard that hostas don't like water. I grow them hydroponicly in a vace or cup with nothing than water. They really look cool. Also when I divide them, I will dig the mound up. Fill a five gallon bucket up with water, put the mound in the bucket for a day. Separate the next day. Easy

I did some research. They taste much like asparagus. You eat the shoots before they open, similarly.