Oh my gosh! Please just give the recipe and then do the him n haw about woodpeckers and your favorite sweaters🙄🥱

I lostball 11 of mine

You have the best quality hosta!

Any organic chipmunk deterrent ideas?

I tried, can’t watch whole thing 😭😭 This is impossible to watch So much unnecessary information 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks for this major insite, I am in Mass. And humid to damp. So slugo will be my next trip to find it thank😊 you again.

Hi, Do you think that garlic powder will also work? Thanks.

your dog eating the snow in the beginning made me giggle

Can I use the same mixture to get squirrels away? They are destroying my garden and persimmon fruits.

Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative thank you..

It’s February, and I just discovered vole’s throughout my garden. Can I apply it now? The soil is soggy after our PNW freeze then rain.

Sorry - giving up. WAY too much gab, I don’t have time. Nor am I inserted in your vacation details.

You are so helpful!

OMG this would be great if you got right to the info! Too many tangents. But great advice.

At the end it shows the deep green shrub contrasting beautifully with the hostas

Wow!

I know this is an old video but I just wanted to thank you for an easy and simple solution!

I call them baby Hostas. I have found dozens of tiny little ones in my back yard., in three varieties. Thank you for the neat ideas on how to display them 😊.

Can you use the castor oil mixture on vegetables?

Thank you for this advice. In NH, too. Just applied your Castor Oil mix around my potatoe beds. Fingers crossed!

They remind me of endless summer afternoons.

This is the only thing that has helped me out. I highly recommend it.

I like to use a machete or a large, sharp garden knife to cut the clump. Easier for me than a shovel. I cut the clump into pieces, dig a hole, put a mix of compost and fresh soil, set the piece of hosta in, water the hole and fill in with more soil. Never lost a transplant. One of my favorite garden jobs.

Love that woodpecker! Right on cue…

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Thought it was funny that you said Southern Alaska and skipped over Canada. Not offended you ignored just thought it was funny as we definitely have Voles and Mic and need advice. Having said that, we don't own a cat and don’t have owls, hawks or coyotes here in Alberta… at least not in my backyard 😀. So, appreciate the advice but I am only interested in exterminating these things.

I watched your other video in which you recommended a 1:1 ratio of dish soap to castor oil in one gallon of water. (time stamp 2:48)l. Here it's different. (1-2 c castor oil:1/3 c detergent: 5 gal water) (time stamp 4:59). I'm a home gardener so won't be investing in this fancy system. Will the soap oil combo damage the plants. Looks here like you are spraying it on the plants as well as the soil.

Which model Dosatron(?) injector did you use in this video? I suspect that this and other general specifications for this and/or a similar injector will be very helpful for me and other interested viewers.

☀️The best way is to remove their fav. food source, grubs. Use milky spore granuals, works abt 10 yrs! www.domyown.com/how-to-get-rid-of-grubs-a-584.html

Thank you, do you know if September would be a good time now in 2022? For the midwest?

Install a Barn Owl nest box; a nesting pair will eat more than 3,000 voles and mice in a breeding season.. To eliminate slugs set empty tuna cans out in depressions in the earth and fill them with beer at dusk.

Timing isn't everything. I did this once in early December in eastern Ontario, in a miserable cold rain that was just turning into our first big dump of wet snow. Everything was cold, wet and muddy. Come spring, all of the pieces grew back as though nothing had ever happened.

Can you split them as much as rhubarb?

Lovely😃

Do you sell hosta plugs (liners) ? Do you have an availability list?

Thanks for the information

I found you podcast just in time! After the snow melted I saw a lot of paths on the grass and mounds on flower bed . Thank you so much for the information. I too like to work as organic as I can possibly can. Your video was worth to watch!!👏👏👏

I would absolutely love to go to Ireland! I’m Irish on my mom’s side. Her maiden name was Goodnight. Never hear that last name in the U.S., least I haven’t yet! Myself I love the Irish accent and the land over there from what I’ve seen on shows is gorgeous! Heard about their hospitality, would love to find out what that’s like myself someday too? My dad was French, but I’ve always been more attracted to the Irish people and their country! Be a dream to go there!

What I don’t understand is why these plugs and basic liners cost so much. Yes I know things have gone up but I also know what wholesale prices look like and the pricing of plants in todays market is about as crazy as houses and cars and anything else. It has to stop somewhere - just because John Doe can get $17 for a .90 plant does that mean everyone should charge the same. There are too many middle men in the market and too many investment firms buying up all the family nurseries when they age out or the kids don’t have the backbone to do what their great grandparents did with a lot less money and time since you didn’t have some of the technology available today. When I look at what those in countries like Netherlands are doing in automation and America is so far behind - it’s kinda nutty. We have to make the jump - so that lack of help doesn’t sink smaller houses/nurseries. In addition, I see so many comments of people disappointed by plants they get either what they receive or they are healthy looking but they lose them anyway. People don’t realize you can stick a plug or liner out in their yards in blazing hot sun and expect them to live through tough weather conditions. But by the time they die in mid summer, the warranty is long gone. These plugs and liners need to be repotted into larger containers. They can’t be direct planted in a big garden except for the best of care and beginning gardeners don’t realize how much tender loving care they need. A 2 gallon container is a different ball game. It’s got the strength and maturity to handle a little tougher situation - still needs care but not like a plug. These folks get disappointed and end up getting rid of beds and planting grass or putting down rocks or mounds of bark. I think it’s a shame that plugs/liners that nurseries use to buy and spend a year moving up the line are now sold almost as soon as the distributor sends the flats to them and at the same prices they use to get for 1-2 year big multi eye plants. We use to never get less than 3-5 eye hostas and many times from good houses much larger. Today you get 1 eye- 1 stem. It’s a shame. Same for peonies, daylilies, etc. Thank goodness there is still one or two that you get sent very large newspaper wrapped bare root fresh dug plants. Today that same plant is cut down to 12-20 one eye plants. I have gotten where I don’t want to buy online and try to buy local - much nicer plants and if I let them know a year ahead what I’m looking for, they will order plugs in and grow on so by the time the fall planting season comes around those plants have grown big and filled the gal to 2 gal size containers so I can divide if I want to. But I prefer to put them in the ground and wait 3 years to lift and divide or slice through without removing the whole plant. Same for shrubs. And annuals - oh my gosh - nurseries are buying seed at bulk wholesale planting them and selling at 2.5” pots for $8.50-$15. For an annual that’s got one year of life and the nurseries paid pennies. I’m a almost 70 year old with a good 50 yrs gardening including selling perennials, shrubs, annuals. I’m looking at opening an orchid greenhouse after growing them for so long and it amazes me the machines that do all the in pot planting and of course the long held automatic seeding. But also machines that automatically move flats and pots, even wash and sterilize flats, etc. but all the ability to reuse water by treating, controllers for all environmental controls, and so much more. Systems that move stock around, systems that use specialized lightening and cameras to determine

Thank you for the information. In the future, please consider organizing your thoughts before you speak. You tend to ramble. If you’re looking for areas to cut, consider minimizing your green agenda. Most people want information not indoctrination.

Great video, thank you!!!

Thanks. Very good advice……A few days ago I noticed 3 of my Hosta had vanished…..found the holes…….I am going to use the castor oil treatment…..hope it works…….we use to have the pileated woodpecker in Arkansas……Miss those noisy birds….They are amazing

Watched both videos. Thanks for the information! I’ll be taking the advice.

Thank you for being gentle on this Earth.

Wow those hosta are colossal. 😳Nice🌟😊💐

Thanks for a Great visual of what I like. They really are awesome without all the bright colors. Have a great day and all the best in 2021.

Thank you Richard. I'm in NC and your time based dividing methodology is hopefully just what I need. I've got some Hosta's that I moved from OH to here when I moved down here 14 years ago and a friend wants some, so knowing when to dig them up has been very helpful! Thanks again!!!

Too much babbling ☹️

The title was cut off when I clicked and I thought it said "How to have a vole farm" Needless to say I'm deeply disappointed