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Growing Huge Hosta is my goal in my garden. I show you the technique I use to grow huge hosta plants in my garden each year. Hosta is a great plant with many varieties that add depth, color, and interest to any garden. Hosta love shade with part sun (for the most part). Hosta plants can be easily divided as a new plant from the store, or season to season. This means that you can exponentially grow your hosta harden from year to year with little to no cost.
If you are like me you want to propagate plants and Hosta is a great way to gain confidence in gardening.
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Dude don’t buy more Hostas. You can split divide multiple times from the huge one you got. I was able to have six from just one huge bunch. They are hardy so it’s hard to kill them. They can be easily moved & transplanted too. Best to do this in early spring or late fall when they go dormant.
You will always need to buy hostas!😅 there are so many different colors out there and sizes and leaves shape, etc. I have probably 35 different hostas now and many many many more to go lol
@@Hmorrell he’s right though, once you start dividing them you’ll end up needing to give them away!
"the apocalypse that is known as my wife (pause) when it comes to plants." Nice save there Mr Collum.
She loves the look of plants…unfortunately she just can’t keep them alive. She does keep the kids and I fed and clothed so I can’t complain too much.
You are so right about the soil conditioner.. I moved to a new property with clay soil, and was worried about planting an expensive tree. My little country boy neighbor told me to mix soil conditioner in with the native soil, and oh man! Beautiful Maple tree the next Spring and its doing really well. I've told other people and and they look at me like I'm crazy! I'm telling you, we need to keep sharing this great information with each other as insignificant as it may seem! Thanks so much for what you do and sharing your knowledge!
Let’s see an update of the flower bed!
Actually Hosta should get bigger and better every year. They are really not that difficult to grow. Your tips are excellent however they really are easy to grow.
True!!!
Great video. Love the last 2 dog licks on your arm as he walks away 🤣🐕
If you want them to grow big fast, always cut the flowers off as soon as you see the stalk coming up. That leaves more energy for growing more leaves and spreading. With all perennials, the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they LEAP !!! 😉❤
Hey that’s my saying too. Had a Gardner tell me that years ago. This Hosta is about 15 years old and spent its first 8-9 years in a pot outdoors. One of the only plants my wife didn’t murder
I have completely surrounded our home with huge hosts and have given just as much away. I started with three plants at $8.50 each 30 years ago!
Awesome! I’ve been buying off of Facebook marketplace and dividing my own. I’m going to fill some areas in my yard until I can’t anymore
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHEROhow do you keep the slugs and snails from destroying them.?
Thanks for your tips from Douglasville. Only person I knew that could grow hosta that big, was my mom. She watered them every night. I'll try feeding mine. I ordered 50 hosta bulbs from Amazon for about $2 each... beats paying $8 at Home Depot for a plant.
That is an awesome deal. I recently purchased 36 plants (only 9 were hosta) for about $1.40 each. I found them on Facebook marketplace. A local guy was selling all his plants he had started in small pots
I planted a hosta about 5 years ago. I knew nothing about plants. I figured nature will take care of it. I gave it zero attention. No water, no food, nothing. Grew about four feet across and about 18 to 24 inches tall. It was planted under a tree.
Awesome. The right conditions and the right location can be a blessing. Sometimes they need a little help
My hostas are huge! I do use the miracle grow once in the spring after they leaves have come out and then again two months later, very small amount of epsom salt diluted in water once or twice a year, and cover them with hi-grade peat to protect after they go dormant just before the first freeze. Hi-grade peat is my new ‘secret’. I use peat to cover the grass seed too, just a fine layer and voila! Beautiful new grass in a week! Any new plants are planted with an amount of the peat mixed in with the native soil as well, for trees too. My hostas even thrive in full sun, but the leaves do get a little brown around the edges if it’s too hot. Great vid, and thanks for the tips!
Awesome! I’ll have to try peat. Thank you for the tip
That explains why my hostas brown in front of my house! Is there a trick to stop this and keep them in full sun?
@@Willzfrugal I find the variety of hosta matters. Larger darker leaved hostas do better in full sun or afternoon sun but watering them daily when it’s crazy hot helps. This summer was a real doozy, so I watered daily sometimes twice daily. It helped them to not brown.
@@tarmach523 Nice! I have a few I can swap out. I'm also growing a bunch now from seed to see what varieties I get.
Thanks for the tips! This is definitely going to help me up my hosta game! I'm crazy about hostas. They're a great groundcover, but I also like to eat the shoots in spring and the flower buds and stalks in the summer! They're both kind of like asparagus in flavor, with a little bit of a bite. I've been steaming the shoots for years, but I've never eaten them grilled until today - and I like them grilled even better! I hope this doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. Don't worry, I have plenty for show, too! :)
That is very interesting! I’ve never heard of eating them before. I just planted 9 more over the weekend. I found them on Facebook marketplace ... bought 36 plants 🌱 and only paid $50 (most of which were day lilies)
They’re very tasty.
I started using Milorganite two years ago. My Hostas are huge---and bonus--the deer don't bother them now. I'm a believer.
you are aware that this fertilizer is from the sewer plant in Milwaukee?
If u snip those flowers off the top(dead head) the hostas will bush out even bigger✔️
Yes dead heading always helps the plant to thrive. Great tip
Yes….but the flowers produce seed pods. Collect the seed pods, dry them & save. Plant the little seeds in Spring & viola, many many baby hostas for free! Ps - hummingbirds love those flowers. Sooo, don’t snip!
@@markb8954 Great tip👍🏼Thanks so much-I’ll try it this season
My hostas are much, much larger. Think Amazon size :) No miracle grow, or fancy soils, just water. Lots of it. And I speak to it nicely, and I'm not kidding about it. Each hosta is possibly 5 feet wide and about 3 ft tall. It is planted in a shaded area, where it gets the sun maybe 2 or 3 hours per day, and I think this is the biggest secret. (I'm in a zone 5B).
I think its great to give all these tips. I'll be honest though, I put hostas in the ground in mostly shade and they grow amazing. No plant food or special soil. I don't even water them unless we go more than a week without rain. Easiest plant to maintain. I'm in northern New England so that may help. Not sure.
Not bad advice. Here in Georgia we have a really heavy red clay. We need a bit more amendment’s for some of our soil.
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO makes sense. We have awesome planting soil here.. We get a lot of snow and the first year I bought our house I planted hostas along the front entrance. I forgot to mark them off and the snowplow ripped them all out of the ground and they were all laying on the edge of the lawn in the spring. I simply replanted them and they all came back fine haha. That's when I knew these things are one of the toughest plants around. We do have to keep deer away from them though. It's basically lettuce to them 😂
Milorganite, or Organic waste from Milwaukee, pelletized waste product. Makes stuff grow like crazy. Add water after fertilizing your lawn with it, and your mower will earn its pay.
Great tip
Our newspaper had a big write-up on milorganite stating it's a "never"chemical that never goes away and causes cancer.
@@laurievanzon2126 bolderdash, breathing causes cancer, Stay in your house then. Oh, the CO2 might get you. Stay in your bubble then. I know that stuff works and used it for yrs.
My hosta are huge because I irrigate with pond water and the filter water from our koi. Mine also get chicken droppings and the pine shavings from the horse stalls. I put the horse refuse on in the fall along with the yard leaves. The rain and snow dilute the horse pee over the course of the winter. The ammonia breaks down to nitrogen and water. Of course, every man-made fertilizer contains nitrogen. But I prefer to use the natural over the man-made. The hostas and all the other plants/flowers love the fish poop best. I only use miracle grow for the potted plants, but do use fish water to also feed them.
Awesome job. I agree, there are so many ways to go about feeding the plants. I’ve composted, had a small worm farm, and collected horse and cow manure. Unfortunately, in gardening many people want a quick easy way to get those results. It is a labor of love for those of us that don’t mind.
What zone are you in?
I use Miracle Gro Tomato Plant Food for my hostas. I learned that from the Funky Gardener. What it does for them is really a miracle.
Sure is. We stock up at the dollar general and get tons whenever they mark it down
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO Good tip! I didn’t even think to look there! The Home Depot doesn’t keep it on hand either. I can only find it at ACR for like $8
We seem to always have an abundance here in Georgia. Dollar General here (in the rural areas) is equivalent to the general mercantile stores of old…if they don’t have it you have to “go to town” so they carry a little of everything here
I love hostas. Thanks for sharing your tips
I love hosta too. The older I get the more I love them.
HeyTony... How about more cabinet building content? I’m going to use your island idea for my barn/work shop, but we don’t need something as fancy as the builds you’ve done. I need something very, very simple/rustic/cheap for the kitchenette area and I lost your phone number to pick your brain. Please keep posting when you can. Thanks!
Bill, thanks for watching and commenting. I’ve got more kitchen island content, I just sometimes need to get out some of the other thing I think people would want. It means the world to me that you take the time to watch my little channel. I promise I’ll get some more island content out.
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO thanks Tony! Keep plugging away and you'll keep growing.
Do you have deer coming through your yard? If so, how do you keep them from eating your Hosta? And one more thing,,,,, Go Dawgs!
Hostas are the shit 👌 I planted some around a tree in my front yard and they grew right back the next year even better. All I did was break up the root ball and they did the rest
My favorite hosta is the Patriot Hosta. I have two in a bed that gets full sun most of the day and they seem to love it. I don't want them to get too big because the bed is not a large bed so as large as they are, they still work in that bed. My Princes Wu (spelling?) is huge even after greatly dividing twice and it's in morning sun only. It is about 4 ft. wide and tall!! Gorgeous!
You could water your hostas with battery acid and the little bas#@$ will still grow, LOL.
Hi Tony, do you not care for peat? I am moving mine and a friend said mix soil, cmpost and peat. What do you think? tks ☺
Very interesting. I read so much about not fertilizing hostas, how nitrogen sensitive they are, etc… but your wonderful results say otherwise!
Do you recommend digging up my plants that are already in the clay soil and fill some of the hole with the soil conditioner?
You could... but if your plant is healthy, happy, and thriving you wouldn’t need to do that.
You could condition the soil around the plants!
Secrets to growing huge Hostas ... tell the DEER not to eat them!
😂😂. Well that is true too
I use a lot of used coffee grounds used tea and watered down pee and fish emulsion Fox Farm Organic Worm Castings and Bat Guano is great also...If worms can live in it ,that helps a lot also..
Absolutely great advice. I had my own small worm farm years ago. Best soil there is.
Watered down pee? What does that do?
watered… watered down.. watered down WUT?
The apocalypse known as my wife! ❤😂❤😂🎉❤🎉❤😂 I hope she doesn’t have access to his videos! She’s probably super hot super cool, and that’s why he’s super chill and making humor out of the thing…. May I would be running scared 😢😂🎉
I am a plant murderer too. Que the Jaws music when I walk into the garden.
Start with some hard to kill plants. Build confidence and knowledge and then move on to different plants. Water them when they require it and plant for the location (soil, Sun/shade). You can do it
You can get milorganite at ACE hardware for $15.00 a bag.
Thank you for the tip!
I have four huge hostas. They were small when we bought our house, but rapidly became monsters, which overtook the garden. This summer, I trimmed them, and they look much nicer. I'm not sure why anyone would want huge ones.
Do you use miracle-gro at full strength or diluted(1/2 OR 1/4)? thx
That is a great question. I mix per the instructions on the box for a watering can. I then water my hosta while counting to 20 (approx 20 seconds)
Slugs are a huge problem for my hostas in the UK, so I keep it in a pot all year round.
I use a slug bait type poison that is safe for dogs (I have 3). I sprinkle it around my plants and keep them at bay
Hang wren houses over the hosta beds. Wrens love hanging houses and they LOVE slugs. They eat them all big ones and especially tiny ones I haven't had slugs or damage in years. Plus you get lovely songs.
Tony’s wife is a murder when it comes to plants, I know I am, but I’m sure she keeps everything else vibrant and alive ❤️.
Yes, yes she does! Most magnificent women I know
Much blessings to you and your family ❤️.
If you count your blooms that how many extra plants you have in that big plant you have that needs to be dividend
Hi! I live in Georgia, Fairburn and just subbed. Thank you for your informative information. Love your vids! 😂 you are funny with your wife plant murderer.
Thanks so much! I wish I was joking. My wife’s lucky I have a green thumb
I love the way you say, "soul" or soil in our neck of the woods!
Lol, I did like your wife, I put mine it pots. I am around Montgomery, AL, we have a problem with that thick red clay dirt, especially area where I had them the past few years near my hydrangeas. I was planning on moving them to the shadiest garden area on our corner lot, there are mucho pines and bark already mulched up well under the flower bedding covers that keep out the weeds and lots of pests as well as keeping in those earth worms.
Are worm snakes bad for gardens? Saw my first worm snake in our house in mid September. Freaked me out!!!! Thought a snake had nested in the garage or something.
Great stuff! I love hostas!!!
I’m not familiar with the worm snake. However I tend to leave the non venomous snakes in the garden to eat the pests. Good luck with your hosta.
I love Paisley!! Great video, too!!
Awe, thank you!! She is a great best friend and loves her daddy!!
thanks for the tip I have two of them still in the gallon pot and they're getting dry I water them averyday and keep them in shade but still dying 😢
They are root bound. Put
Into bigger pot. With fresh potting soil. Watch them thrive
I thought you were saying a brand name Sol Conditioner... until I looked at the screen.
😂😂
My hostas are in full hot sun and they look like shit now
Way to go coach!
You may have the wrong Hosta for the location
Unfortunately the slugs like Hosta's as much as I do 😭
I have super big hostas that i ignore and they do very well in direct sunlight and red GA. clay.
Hosta are a very resilient for sure. I kinda have your luck too. But Nothing wrong with trying a little at the start to ensure they do succeed (for those with a brown thumb)
Oh Paisley he's so sweet!!! 💞
Thank you. She’s my best friend.
It's funny I must be doing something right because all I have i clay. I planted my beautiful Hosta right in the clay with just a little soil. Today they are the biggest Hostas I ever saw. They are so beautiful I am going to make a woodland display of Hostas and other pretty shade flowers.
Soil conditioner is what I use too in East TN and my garden beds are amazing!
It is an easy way to improve the soil . I find my plants really do thrive.
What is the soil conditioner? Thanks for the great video!
@@karennunnery7427 you can buy it at Lowe's or Home Depot. Any Nursery should have it as well. It's ground up pine bark..growers use it in their starter plant pots
Thanks for the great info.
I'm in Lithonia,Ga and love my hostas.Just divided sone today
Love the baby kissing you
This was so helpful! I took notes and am heading to the nursery now to plunge in (I say plunge in, bc your wife and have something in common :) PS Love Paisley and that you let her give you kisses
Browsing and I saw this. Thanks for sharing your tips
Absolutely!
My blind wheelchair bound 90 year old neighbor can grow hosta. 🤣
See, anyone can do it!
Great video and I like how there’s some common sense tips and I really liked the tip around and get in the soil set because the plant lives in the soil so it’s like a no-brainer but even I missed that sometimes 😂🎉❤
Ugh I just scored a hosta… It’s potted it’s just about to flower I cut the burn stems off and fertilized and moved it to a all shade location. Fingers crossed.
Great video! Do they have to be in full shade?
I moved my hosta to a new location just today. I also have clay soil. I used compost when planting. I was wondering how long should I wait before I start to fertilizer?
Hi Mary Grant;
Take l gallon of water and mix a tablespoon of Epsom salt in. Pour the whole gallon around the plant. This will give your Hosta a great start.
@@tinaknutsen I sure will! Thank you.
Dang I live in Winston. What nursery?
I have several beautiful overgrown Hosta. My understanding is fall and spring to split plants, but they are still so difficult to separate. Any suggestions for a not-so-strong woman?
Hosta are so hearty (most varieties) that you can split them almost anytime during the growing season. Obviously you will have to provide more water and care during the heat of summer. As far as splitting the hosts for someone with less strength…a really sharp shovel will make division much easier. Watch my video here where I show how I do it…hint, you don’t have to remove the whole plant from the hole. ruclips.net/video/hx3vR7OqrjI/видео.html
Or with a really sharp knife you could go after only a single eye to make it more manageable.
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO thank you for the information. Now will you loan me your strength 😱😱😱.
@@lindabarnes7223 I know you commented 8 months ago…I am very small 87 pounds and severe arthritis in my hands. I just dig as much as a clump as I can and use a Dewalt battery powered auger and a Dewalt battery powered small saw. I use the auger to make my holes for where I am going to transplant ahead of time, then I use the saw to cut pieces of the clump that I am going to divide.
It works great and saves my hands from trying to rip them apart.
Also once I transplant I feed it a mix of 1 tablespoon of epsom salt to a gallon of water and feed them immediately…. I get flowers in June here in western Washington State (zone 8a) then I also put down slug and snail bait at the same time.
I just discovered that planting Hostas under Silver Maple trees is a bad idea, so tomorrow I am transplanting mine to another spot. They are all but one or two, two years old and not growing. I also use miracle grow but need to be more diligent about regular feeding. Thanks for the video.
I’ve never heard that before. Thanks for sharing. I just received about 9 more plants a few weeks ago... can’t wait to see them fill out more next year
So I searched what to plant under silver maples. Guess what, hostas! Go figure.
So come winter,,,, do you cut your hosta all the way down to the ground?? I live in 8 b ga.
There’s no Miracle grow on the Dollar store here in Michigan.
Dang, that stinks. I swear my wife finds it and buys it every time she can.
You can get at walmart or other box stores.
Subscribed your channel the moment your doggo licked you🐶❤️aawww
I have the Japanese native hosta which is different from the American plantation hosta help how do I take care of them?
Do you cook some of your Hosta? I heard its edible
I’ve heard they are edible…I’ve never tried it
Thanks for the video.
I planted hostas, but the snails did a job on some of them. Will they be able to recover?
They should come back next year. Make sure you get some slug bait to get rid of those pesky things
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO Thank you very much!
Hostas look great, nice tips. I like the before and after pics 👍🏼
Thanks so much!
I grow the best hostas lol they are huge …
What colorful flowers you have growing with the hostas the pink and red flowers
good video, glad i watched. new subber ( as long as the dog makes more guest appearances
Awesome! I’ll have to get her more involved for sure.
Can I just sprinkle the plant food around the plant or does it need to actually be in the hole that is dug for it.
Sprinkle around the plant works fine too
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO I found my liquid stuff yesterday and went to town on all my plants old and new ones.
How often should feed it and when do you stop? do you feed during winter time as well?
I feed about every 2 weeks and stop once I get into summer. I personally don’t feed during the winter.
What can you do to stop the bugs from eating them?
If it is slugs I use sluggo. Just sprinkle it around the base of the plant. If it is another type of bug, you will need something different. More than likely it is slugs/snails
Good tips.
6 Pick a cultivar that gets big.
7. Tree roots always outcompete hosta for water and nutrients. Maples ,( except for Japanese) and fruit trees are terrible for hosta. Oaks and honey locusts are good.
Thank your for the extra tips! As I get older I love the hosts plant more and more.
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I have a few giants in my garden you might want to check out.
I have a ton of Hostas and Bearded Irises under my cherry trees and no problems whatsoever. I think it depends on your climate…I’m in the Seattle area - zone 8a and we get get rain most of the year and flooding in quite a few areas.
What cause Hostas to mold underneath? I have never had this happen in past years. But I just found this evening a thick mold growing under and around the stems?
Thank you I LOVE HOSTAS
They are awesome
What about root Hosta in container? I got a root fork the store do I water it every few days ?
I love those big blue hostas. You got any of them.
I wish! I’m gonna keep collecting
Hi i just moved from Maine to columbus Ga...i bought a house an love hostas....do u sell seeds please
I don’t sell any seeds, sorry
Seeds take WAY too much time to grow. Just buy 1 and soon you’ll be able to divide it and get more plants that way. 🌸
Hostas look great, nice tips. I like the before and after pics 👍🏼
It gets to 110 in the sun here in NE Texas, can I grow hosta
In my opinion, that might be too harsh for them.
Love Paisley's commentary!
She’s awesome
the slugs and snails get to mine all the time
Slugo works wonders. Sprinkle around the base of the plant.
Is this a Francee Hosta?
Спасибо🤝 👍
Maybe you don’t have problems with slugs and snails were you are but here where I am in Ireland they devour any hostas I’ve tried to grow. 😢
For slug control, use beer in a shallow container container, such as a jar lid. Place the lid under a leaves , slugs come for a drink, and drown. Check every few days add fresh beer…
R. I.P. Slugs…😂
Deer and rabbit salad
I’ve never had rabbit salad, but I have had ground deer 🦌 in my salad 🥗 😂
Excellent with chicken too....
Can you grow hostas in zone 10 I am in Southern California but I have a very shady balcony
Echo most tags say say zones 5-9. I’m in zone 8a and they are easy care here. Each year they are coming out with newer varieties that handle more sun.
And yet you can completely ignore hostas all season and they will do just fine and grow year after year. About the only thing to really worry about is that if you plant them in full sun you have to water them regularly. Hostas are hardy and resilient. They can also be divided every two years or so to make new plants.
Very true
Dear it’s called SOIL and no Soul!
What ratio are you using for the Miracle Gro?
I use the instructions on the box. Basically 1-1/2 of the green scoops (that look like a spoon) that comes in the miracle grow container to about 2 gallons of water.
@@TonyCollumtheHOWTOHERO thank you Tony.
Can you keep Hosta indoors ?
I believe so. Some Sun from a window and water regularly and I think it will thrive
Is it one plant or multiple)
Yes, this is one plant.
I have never seen a black boxer!
The old black boxer debate. Actually they call the “black” boxer a reverse brindle. In the Sun you can see that my Paisleys coat has a distinct brown hue that is so dark she appears black. And truth be told (but let’s keep this quiet...she may be listening) I think she may be mixed with American Bulldog...but her dominant breed is definitely Boxer.
Loved this video! Thanks for sharing :)
Awesome! Thank you for watching.
Will these grow good in a large plant box?
Yes they will