Re: Moving large hosta
- Subject: Re: Moving large hosta
- From: N*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:43:11 EDT
Use a very sharp shovel, cut a ring around the hosta and when finished with
this take the shovel and pry the bottom of the hosta loose. If you do this
right you will have a large disk of soil with a hosta in the middle. Slide the
disk onto a tarp or a piece of ground cloth and move the hosta by sledding it
to the new hole. The new hole should be prepared to fit the hosta that you are
moving. Slide the hosta from the tarp to the hole and take the time to
backfill the space all the way around, do not leave air pockets. Water well and
water well often.
The soil can be moved back to the hole the hosta came out of from another
tarp or the wheel barrow.
I have moved trees and big plants and hostas using this method. No leaves
will need to be trimmed and the hosta should behave like it does not know it has
been moved. And it is easy on the back if you use your legs right! N.
Narda Miller
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