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Eric: So today we are going to divide hostas. Hostas are really easy to divide, you basically just kind of slice off a piece of it and so today we are going to talk about dividing hosta. Hostas are really easy to divide, you basically cut them up and replant them and you have you some free plants that works really well. We are over at a friend’s house, it has a bunch of hostas and they first asked us to fix a little area they have with hostas where there is a hole and then we are also going to take some divisions and plant them in our yard as well.
The tools for the job, you need—this is called a transplant spade or I think it is called. Yes, it is kind of a fancy thing but it is narrow and it is deep. So you can cut into the root and you can also go fairly far down which is nice. And I like this little shovel. This is just handy for digging stuff up. So you do need giant tools.
So what we are going to do is we have some hostas here and if you notice, they ring the tree nicely but there is this empty space right here. Empty space shot now. Basically we are going to cut little pieces of these other plants out and we are going to drop them in here and in a couple of growing, it will grow and will look like we barely even touched it.
Female: One week—
Eric: When did I say that? Did I say that earlier?
Female: A couple of weeks ago.
Eric: A couple—No so, in a week they will look fine. All right so, watch and learn. We have the interior of a hosta plant is basically it is a ton of stems coming up and what we are going to do is we are going to cut off some of these stems and dig them out. So basically I am just going to take a corner of the plant here and I am going to put my shovel in there and then I am just going to push a foot on it and go down like that.
So it is kind of like cutting a square plug out of the ground and you want to try an not cut all the leaves but just go around, these are really a fibrous root. So it is kind of like digging a pineapple out of ground. Is this a show about hosta or puppies?
So we are digging around. Put a puppy where the plants are not growing. All right so, there we go. So this is your divided plant. This is your division, I mean you could see that is a really tough root. You have got some in the plant. So we will take this, we will put it over here. This, we are just kind of fill in with dirt and this hosta will grow and fill this out, no problem. We are just going to dig a hole that is correspondent to the size of the root ball here and we will drop this in.
So we are going to drop this in. What I always do is I always cut back in the number of leaves from the divided plant. Because basically you have cut off a huge amount of the roots and I think you need to cut off on a corresponding number of leaves otherwise, you have got a very small number of roots that are trying to support a whole ton of leaves. Thank you, love.
You could just break these off too but and guess the boss likes to use that tool. Really simply, this goes in, you want the level of the plant to be slightly below the soil level. Now, just drop it in.
Female: You want the ball to below the soil level.
Eric: You want the ball to be below the soil level slightly. There is a worm there. Nice Mr. worm. Press that down, you want the soil of the contact with the roots and then I like to build a little moat around here just so when we put the water in, some of the water is held here rather that running down the side of the hill. Sand castle skill is coming into play here. So that way, the water stays there, it does not run away. Now, it has time to soak in. You should come back to this everyday or two and water it more because the roots system definitely needs moisture that needs time to grow.
So that is really the secret of it. Hostas are really easy they have got a real fibrous root, you just cut down, slice around. A sharp blade is helpful on the shovel, put it out, fill in that part with some soil. You do not want a big hole there and drop it in where you need it and water it regularly and it will
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