Re[2]: Heavie-Jeebies
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re[2]: Heavie-Jeebies
- From: b*@herc.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:58:38 -0500
If possible, can you scoop out an inch of dirt with a shovel, say 6-8"
under the crowns? That would be the easiest way not to disturb them, but
still lower them. Otherwise you keep putting dirt around them until they
settle.
bruce
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Subject: Re: Heavie-Jeebies
Author: hosta-open@mallorn.com (owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com) at HERCULES
Date: 03/21/2000 6:56 AM
Thank goodness here in Tennessee I don't normally have heaving problems.
But I do have another related problem with the same results: gardener
boo-boo. Last year I planted several hostas too high, anticipating
soil
settling. It wasn't til this spring that I noticed their hairy little
crowns showing above ground. In most cases, the roots are covered,
though
some of them have roots showing right where they join the crown.
Should I dig these up and replant them deeper? (She asks with fear and
trepidation, thinking about here aching back and the 20+ hostas from
last
year that still need planting)
Gerry
At 09:30 AM 3/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Bruce
>Your suggestion sounds easier to me than digging and potting up.
Just one
>more question tho. The area is totally exposed, and if the eyes are
left
>above the soil line, would they not be subject to drying out from the
wind,
>sun and eventual frosts (and probably snow) again? Are you telling
me that
>as long as the roots are protected and kept from drying out, the eyes
and
>subsequent leaves will be fine?
>Thanks.
>Barbara
>Quebec, Canada
>t*@acbm.qc.ca
>
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