HOSTA CLEANING!
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: HOSTA CLEANING!
- From: B* B*
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:04:06 -0400
Hello all,
I am liking my new hostas as they are growing big and filling out. However,
I don't know what you all do with the mess that they collect in that section
where the leaves meet the stems. I have found in the past that if I do not
clean them out, that later I find bleached out, and/or brown blotches there.
Messy looking now, and problems later. My gardens are rather large and I
don't have time to pick at them all by hand...
I have very large oaks, locust, crab apples, willows, apples, and various
shrubs like Viburnam Shasta which deposit their droppings.
Of course most of the hostas need to be in the shade, so I cannot plant
'not' under the trees! But then again, those even not 'under' the trees get
the blown around messes.
I have hand picked...too tiresome and I don't have time, washed with a hose,
which is too expensive and a waste of water, AND the leaves sometimes turn
around and don't get washed! and just let them be.
just wondering what you all do!
Bobbie in Mass.
Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
