Re: HOSTA CLEANING!
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- Subject: Re: [SG] HOSTA CLEANING!
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:55:18 -0400
Bobbi, I have the same situation. All my large hostas collect
assorted detritus just at the base of the leaf.
What do I do? Well, in many cases I totally ignore it. If it gets
on my nerves sufficiently, I either remove the stuff by hand; poke it
down so it falls out or hose it off, which I find the least
satisfactory since not enough water pressure doesn't move the stuff
and too much damages leaves.
This is one case where a judiciously blind eye helps a great deal:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Bobbi Brooks <lilylady@PRODIGY.NET>
> Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:04 PM
>
> 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
