Can't remember ever NOT having pork & sauer kraut, with some kinda potatoes, on New Years Day. Sister has long been transplanted from the SE PA area to the DC area, so she also has black-eyed peas. Ive never had them... no particular reason, just haven't. Decided to cook/eat my way outta 2013 and into 2014. Thought I had a decent sized hunka pork in freezer, but NO? Did find a half rack of baby backs... cooked them yesterday and have been picking at them since last night. Since hunka pork I had was small (about half of a single pork tenderloin) went out this morning for something more substantial... left-overs only seem to get better IMO... lunch for tomorrow when back to school after a LONG break. Have some frozen periogies getting ready to be boiled up and added to porl/kraut. I like to cook pork a LONG time... till falling apart.

Blue Angel sport? Yes, then you should plan with at least a square meter, maybe even more. I have several Blue Angels, never was lucky with such a good looking sport:-(

Hi Brandy, I feel your pain! However, before you resign yourself to the ordinary and common (not as unique looking foilage) cheaper hostas that are available in abundance at many places... Have you considered ordering some hostas from online nurseries that do mail orders? From what I have read in your previous posts, you can purchase eye catching and newer varieties of hostas for less than what you have in your local area. In my limited personal experience ( one year with Hostas) I have found that there is much more variety/selection for better prices than things that are local in my area. Sometimes better values can be found online... and with proper research the sizes of the plants are comparable to what you have purchased locally (larger than "liners", "starter plants" or first year seedlings plants). * Some places online you pay too much for the sizes they send. Been there, done that. Just putting that out there. But you do have to look around and compare prices to sizes offered and reputation. I have found value in bare-root selections, rather than purchasing potted plants - for online orders. There are some places that ship the hosta potted and others without the dirt, and others just the bare-root (maybe a pip showing depends on the time of year for the purchase). You have my sympathy for the failed hostas and this is just my 2 cents, take it for what it's worth because I am new to the world of hostas. This will be my first spring looking for the pips of the hostas I planted last year late spring/summer. My container hostas have already leafed out (too early for my zone!). I lost 1 to crown rot and the other to root rot. There is a lot for me to learn. For example reading through past years threads, I recently learned that regular potting soil (miracle grow and the like even with added perlite or vermiculite) is not the best for hostas in containers. Regular potting soil does not drain fast enough for hosta roots to "breathe" and it gets compacted over time leading to root rot. So I will be repotting my containers this year with a more textured mixture adding a mixture that is used for orchids or similar. I am currently holding my breath and have my fingers crossed for my outdoor hosta graden. But I just wanted to repeat that you do not have to go for the cheap ones usually the classic common hostas. Sure there is nothing wrong with the classic hostas, but you have a great opportunity to purchase a few specimen hostas! So, if you have not yet, do try mail orders from reputable places online that specialize mostly in hostas for your future hostas purchases- more selections and better values are to be had! :) :) I realize that I must feel strongly about this - thanks for reading it all- hope it helps and pardon for the long post ! LOL ;)

whoa.. you are really over thinking this ... the pips MUST BE coming out of the crown.. where ever it might be ... repot it.. leaving the crown an inch above the soil ... so the crown will dry out.. stop the rotting ... perhaps repot it.. in a month or so ... i would guess.. that bruce would have told you to throw the whole thing into bleach .... i never liked doing that.. they all died ... but most likely.. they were dead before i tried to do it.. lol ... others can discuss that ... i also never really liked cutting into already rotting plants.. all you would be doing is opening wounds in unrotted flesh.. for the rot to spread.. but.. if it would pull apart.. why not ... bonsai is a system of pruning roots a couple times a year... to force dwarfism on a plant ... i dont know what you would accomplish giving the roots a haircut ... aw hell ... run it over with the car.. and repot it.. and be done with it .. lol .. ken