Well done!!

@@savvydirtfarmer exciting! hows it going now

Couple of years ago I divided a hosta and ended up with 17 outa one plant

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Thanks for being here!! Much appreciated

Good plan!

I hope you live near me. I will give you all the Hostas you want. I live in country club hills ILL. No charge s

@@marilynhudson5805 I live close to you!

I wouldn;t even know where to start!

@@savvydirtfarmer get Chloe to look into it! I bet you she would be able to help. Agree with the poster, you have a wonderful teaching method and lovely attitude, you would definitely do well on skillshare and the like. It's just recorded videos like here, but payable 😊

There are probably 10 reasons why it's better to work with younger plants, and you just touched on several of them. You can divide a big, old hosta with a shovel, handsaw, axe, machete... whatever you have. For growing nursery plants? I prefer a more precise approach that doesn't require me to have an inventory of huge, mature plants to butcher every year.

Thank you so much!

Glad it was helpful!

You can do it!

Enjoy!

Sounds like a good project to me!

It's part of our charm. 😀

@@savvydirtfarmer lol. You could be cursing me out and I’d still be smiling listening to you….”you dag gum not attractive little missy you, you ain’t got no green thumb and shouldn’t even be up in my dag gum garden.”

@@carlagarzia7327 I may have to quote that sometime.. nicely done!

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Awesome! I have had Wolverine before but currently do not. Would love to find some more. Best of luck to you.

Glad you like them!

Thanks!

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Great!

Thank you! I'm just enjoying what we're learning in our backyard. We aren't experts at anything. Just sharing what has worked for us. thanks for watching!

So nice of you

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yes sir! Landscape + nursery is a great combination for a killer business plan... best of luck to you going forward with it.

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You're joking right? This was written as a joke?

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Welcome!

Not that I know of. Some varieties just don't multiply, and others multiply fast... too fast, really. The Night Before Christmas is an example... crazy how fast it multiplies!

YES!! Propagating via division is awesome

yep. it does look like hosta murder

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You're welcome!

Thanks!

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YES!!! We tried it with just leaves, maybe 3 years ago and rooted about 50% of them. The problem with that is it takes painstakingly forever for them to grow out to a selling-sized plant. And, as with everything, I'm sure some hosta varieties work better than others.

Wonderful to know this.....when I was dividing several hostas, the stem broke off from the crown. I have them in water right now but I'll put some in potting mix and see how they grow. Glad I kept them!!!!

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Great! Thanks for watching

hope it's helpful!

@@savvydirtfarmer Yes, I have always just dug into them to divide. The method your showing makes much better sense-

@@nativegardenangel If one is looking to just divide their own plants to spread around the yard, carelessly whacking them with a shovel, axe, knife, or whatever is fine! If one is looking to produce a much greater number for nursery growing, a more careful approach is needed.

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What do they taste like and how do you cook them? Earlier in the season, maybe?

Don’t know where you are, but I just bought some at Home Depot today. Also they sell bare roots starting in January. I’m in SoCal.

They stay in their containers on top of the ground, mostly uncovered, all winter.

I had some above ground in container when the Texas freeze came. Outside temp was below -15 for 100 hours. So they froze solid and came back no problem. If they were in the ground they could have been 40 degrees warmer.

Hostas are tough! I had some I never got around to replanting so were laying on top of the ground. In Chicago! Next spring they came up ready to go! That's tough!

Thank you kindly!

Don’t do anything with them. They need a cold. In order to survive. They have to go dormant. They can stand freezing, snow, cold, whatever, and winter and be fine.

Any time is fine, Now is great! I try to avoid extreme heat and in the winter I just don't do it because I have an easier time working with them when they aren't so cold! But hostas are about as resilient plant as there is... they can handle being divided whenever you have inclination to do so.

Works with any hosta. The giants seem to be slower to multiply in number though, so, there's that.

I divide them, pot them, put them in a shady place, and leave them alone til the next Spring. I don't protect them at all.

@@savvydirtfarmer Thx..

They have to have a dormant period (cold) as they are a perennial plant. No need to put them inside at all. Pot them up, leave them outside. Come Spring, they'll be beautiful.

Some bug damage is reasonable and normal. I don’t do anything for holes here and there, minor leaf damage, etc. I’ve never had any major pest problems with Hostas or anything else.

I usually divide in Spring, but you can really do it any time. thanks!!

@@savvydirtfarmer when you do it in the spring how long do you wait for them to be big enough to sell. I want to do it now but what do I do when they are grown over the winter. Does that make sense

@@sandrakay26 they will over winter in pots just fine. Hostas are about the toughest plant there is. Depends on variety and size of your divisions how long it takes to get to to selling size.

Hard to go wrong with Hostas!

It’s called woven ground cover/cloth. “Woven” is important

Mine are fancy. Buy cheap window blinds, cut them into 4 inch strips with scissors, and use them as tags. Works great and last as long as I need them to. Use #2 pencil to write on them.

That's a good average for the types of plants I grow... from propagation to sale.

Check out my DIY potting soil video.

@@savvydirtfarmer diy potting soil

Probably not. I just cut them off because once you hack them all up, the leaves aren't going to do a thing except flop over and be a mess all season. New leaves will start growing in in a month or two. Plus (and I'm only guessing here), I don;t need leaf growth, I need root growth at this point, so I'm hoping that plant is putting its energy into root growth instead of supporting big leaves that I don;t need. I Could be wrong in that. Bottom line is it's just the way I do it and I can't tell you exactly why. But I do know this.... it works.

@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks so much for the explanation!

Slugs are just going to get their share of hostas. I don't have a definite fix... people try all kinds of things and swear by all kinds of home remedies that I've never tried.

@@savvydirtfarmer the only thing that works for me is the soap/vinegar/water mix. On rainy days i go out and spray anything i want to keep.

You can divide hostas anytime. I don't mess with it in winter, or in the heat of the summer. If you have hostas now that have multiple stems, you can divide them today, if you like. Really depends on what you want to do with them. I have hostas that could be divided now, or sold now (or in a couple weeks when they flush out more). Always selling some and dividing some. Time wise, there's no exact way to do it.

I divide them, pot them, then leave them alone. Next Spring they come up happy.

Hostas are very tough/hardy plants. Are they hardy in your growing zone? They will be fine in pots/trays outside through winter as long as you don't go through a long dry spell and let them completely dry out. Their water needs are very minimal during winter anyway, so that's usually not an issue. I have bought plenty of hostas from the box stores as long as they are correctly labeled. If they just say "hosta" on them, that's a deal breaker. You have to know exactly what variety of plant you are selling always. I sell 90% of my plants in trade gallon size pots (3 qt), including hostas.

@@savvydirtfarmer thank you getting back to me! Yes they are hardy in our area. We actually have some in our yard but wasn’t sure if I should be dividing those up and selling or getting a few starts and go from there. Appreciate your time and learning a lot from your videos!

@@savvydirtfarmer I much my gardens once they have finally froze to at least 3-4 inches. THEN I much and cover the pots or stuff in the ground. Once they have been frozen I want everything to STAY FROZEN until next spring were they unthaw--- once! It is that freeze-thaw, freeze-thaw, freeze thaw, over and over that kills most plants. And the drying out when pots thaw doesn't help either. But black pots can certainly warm in the later winter sun and then freeze again during the nights. A Killer! Much well and don't let the mulch blow away. Bird netting is nice. Or in a poly hoop house. Mulched. And when the pot can thaw and not freeze rock hard, solid. Once it starts to warm up i start to uncover pots a bit and then remove the rest of the leaf mulch once spring has 'for sure' arrived! And i let nature do its thing to wake the garden up. Seems to work just fine!

@@ejfishes7610 I have seen hostas potted up by non-professional growers. They look sad, bedraggled and pitiful, to be honest. (The boss/owner of a garden center I worked at would pot her stuff up. It looked terrible and didn't sell--- at all! Similar stuff grown by a local, experienced and professional grower--- flew off the tables. His stuff look PERFECT! Not a blemished leaf, not a bug bite, and no mud caked, dirty pots! His stuff was absolutely gorgeous, healthy and, as I said, perfect looking in every way. His hostas were also 2-3 years old, grown in poly houses, in those pots, the whole time. His plants were stunning!!! The owners stuff was terrible looking and didn't sell. Had she not owned the place no one would have ever bought them from her. Plus, she potted from the ground, with just regular dirt from her garden! Bizzare, huh? I moved away but she wasn't in business very long. Just very, Very tone deaf! In one of the nicest, richest sections of Chicago she wanted to sell her bedraggled, homegrown, little plants, which were----- hostas! IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! (We often just threw her stuff out it was so bad! She didnt know because she wasn't there often, she was at her 'farm' in Wisconsin--- growing stuff! To sell! Absolutely true story! I kind of hope she doesn't read this, but it's all true!!! Sadly. She got divorced and took her settlement and decided to become a grower! You know, how hard could it really be??!!) Ans: Harder than it looks!!!

@@ejfishes7610 If you really want to consider being a 'grower'--- go work for one for a year to see how much work is REALLY involved and LEARN a few things about how it is REALLY done! After all of that, think about it again! And go from there. It is NOT as easy as falling off a log!!!

Hostas are about as tough a plant as there is. They should be fine. Even if they don;t stand up, new growth will come in soon enough,

Appreciate it! I'll take all the help I can get

Most of my plants sit outside in the winter just as they do the rest of the year... uncovered. I don't do anything to them. Part of my learning curve for what I do is figuring out which plants survive over the winter with very few losses - that's part of the reason I grow what I grow.

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They just stay how they are. No cover, etc

More new leaves will grow from the center. I've found that once these hostas flush out, then divide them, those leaves don't seem to do much but flop over anyway. I can't prove it it, and maybe it doesn't make any difference. I just know that what I do works. It makes their trays cleaner and easier to water without leaves flopping everywhere. In some cases when I'm not able to get much (if any) root material, there are no roots to support the leaves. Good question, and just my thoughts. I've done it cutting the leaves off and not cutting them and I can't see any noticeable difference either way.

When I divide hostas for my nursery, I clean the dirt off so I can see what I'm doing. If you're just dividing hostas in your yard to have more plants for your landscape, it is certainly not necessary to clean them, or really even be all that careful with them. It's just the way I do it, and it allows me to get more divisions per plant.

hey thanks a lot and congrats on your new adventure!

There's a ton of home remedies out there... many have something to do with beer. I'm skeptical of all of them. They aren't a huge problem where I live, but I really don't know.

I never bring anything in. Only occasionally cover a few plants if we have a very late freeze.

I’ve done it both ways. Makes no difference. Just my preference.

Can't speak to lilies except that I know my daylilies won't overwinter in pots - I killed them all. Hostas? They'll thrive in pots over winter if they are hardy in your area. Main thing is to keep them moist without drowning them. They can freeze, get buried in snow (which is actually a great insulation), etc, but they won't do well with repeated freeze/thaw/rain unless they drain very well. Otherwise, they are a great plant to try.

I never bring anything inside. If the hosts is hardy in your area, it should overwinter just fine.

I fertilize all of my potted plants with a slow release fertilizer, brand Florikan.

Yes. As long as they have some decent roots and aren't scorched by hot afternoon sun, they should do fine. Bigger divisions will likely doo best directly in the ground. Some of these tiny ones I make would likely not fare as well.

I make them by cutting up old window blinds and mark them with a #2 pencil. They last for years.