Hi Arthur, you make me smile. :) "Scraggy" I know: weak, thin, scrawny, lean, long But "LHS", I cannot figure out nor Google out: Loyalty Honor and Success? Left-Hand Side? Let's Have Sex? (this is, by far, the definition that the internet would have me accept) Load Handling System? Lung Health Study? Liquid Handling System? Latin Hypercube Sampling? Left Hemisphere Stroke? Latent Heat Storage? Local Hobby Store? Life Happiness Scale? And those are just the ones that seemed more likely. There are also about a thousand L______ high schools. Go LHS! So you can see, I'm going to need your help. TYVM. Carol in Jacksonville

i have flat trays, 4 inch, 6 inch, half gallon, gallon, and bigger plastic pots.. many many pots... (we're a wedding facility with huge flower beds.. and we buy lots of plants..) they need a home... would love to trade plants for some,,, but if not i would love to give them a home.. i literally cannot get into my storage shed without them cascading out the door... In college station... email me at avalonweddingsbcs@yahoo.com

joeywyomingzone4 I appreciate the info. gave. You wrote: "The vegetable garden has been a bit of a disaster. The Kellogg's Organic Raised Bed soil that I bought to fill my planter boxes turned out to have an excessively high salt content and killed the seedlings I raised, along with the replacement plants I purchased from the nursery. It even killed bindweed that tried to grow up the side of the planters and root in the dirt! So, I thought I'd let you know that the Kellogg's brand of soil has been really toxic for me." Joey. garden nest 101 Z5 northeast: ALERT about Better Homes and Garden bagged soil for container (black bag) sold at Walmart: It's also high in salt and made by rootings broke out in mildew. It has turkey manure, too salty. The other rootings, planted in BEYOND PEAT potting soil (purple bag at Walmart) DO NOT HAVE MILDEW. BEYOND PEAT is the purple bag on sale this fall for $2, versus $5 for Better Homes and Garden container soil. So the cheaper price is actually better quality. Scott's bagged topsoil (red bag) sold at Walmart also changes the formula to be higher salt. Back in 2012 I was foolish to mixed horse manure into my clay, then planted 3 Austin own-roots. They broke out in salt burn (brownish at the edge of leaves). In 2012 I replaced the soil with Scott's bagged topsoil, and each Austin gave 40+ blooms as 1st-year own-root & very healthy. Back then that soil had lots of black peat (decomposed peat), thus high in nitrogen. Fast forward to 2022, I bought Scott's bagged topsoil, and the ingredients changed to LESS expensive black peat & MORE cheap & salty horse manure. I found a wad of brownish horse manure inside. It's saltier, and made my roses broke out in mildew, plus brownish burn at edge of leaves. Will scrape off that soil which I used to top my air-pots.

As Ken said, the size of the pot should correspond with the size of the hosta at the time of planting. I've only planted a hosta pot in the garden twice. For the first one, I choose a big pot for a very small hosta. It died. For the second one, I chose a sturdy pot a bit bigger than the root system the hosta already had. I have had it in the same pot for about 4 years. For the first two years, the hosta grew well. The third year the hosta looked good, but would often start to wilt. I attributed that to the fact that it was time to repot it to a larger pot---but now I believe it was because the tree roots had entered the pot and were drinking up the water. The fourth year I pulled the pot out of the soil. Roots had invaded the pot through the drainage holes. Not only that, but the tree roots had encircled all around the pot on the outside. I didn't repot the hosta. I left the pot slightly higher than soil level. Before winter I turned the pot to make sure any new roots had not entered the pot and planted the pot at the proper level for winter. So if you want to try it, I think it works pretty well. A few points: (1) Do not use an overly large pot for a small plant. (2) Turn the pot at least once a season or more (to break invaded roots). (3) Remove a bit of the soil from the top of the pot yearly and replace with new soil/compost. I've never tried the double pot method though it sounds like a good idea. It just worries me that the pot with the hosta will not possibly drain well enough using the two pot method---especially with clay type soil.