Yep... when I read that part in Ken's post about maples something clicked and I remembered reading bad maple root things here and there in these forums. Only a few hostas planted so far under that tree (I chopped one clump into 5 pieces) - I'll stop there, mulch with old leaves from last year, keep it watered and see how they do. Since the rest of the new shade garden is still in close proximity to that tree's roots, I'm going to try mxk's idea of putting everything, including the remaining hosta clumps, in good-sized pots (I've got many) and good potting soil and plant the pots right in the bed, to keep the roots from sucking them dry. I've always wanted to try this approach, so we'll see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, they're already potted for an easy move to a better location. Thanks to all for the alert and making me see my mistake sooner rather than later.

I think you're past the temperature window when it's safe to use it at all, because when it gets close to 90, it can kill the grass as well as the weeds. I use it rarely. Usually only if I used my weed hound when the soil was too dry, so ended up with dandelions growing out of a small hole that the weed hound can't get them out of. What I do is get the spray nozzle a few inches from each individual weed and spray. Any farther and you get drift, leading to damaged or dying trees, shrubs, vegetables and so forth. It's almost too much trouble to use, I think. Sounds like the IFA guy has a different approach--using it in a sprayer and doing the entire lawn. Unless you've got mostly weeds, that's overkill. If you sprayed on a day with absolutely no wind and were very careful, you might avoid damaging other plants, but odds are, if you spray that much, some will go where you don't want it. As for the bindweed. Your best bet with that is to pull it as soon as you see it, so that it doesn't get a chance to feed its roots. If you do that enough, you can keep it at bay. From what I understand, the best time to kill bindweed is during the fall, after a light frost. That's when it really starts to stockpile food in its roots, so any poisons go deep into the root system. I'm posting a link to a thread with a discussion of using a dilute solution of glysophate in jars to slowly kill the bindweed. The reasoning is that if you kill it quickly, it kills the leaves, but the roots live. If you kill it slowly, it absorbs the glysophate and takes it deep into the roots. There's also a mite that attacks bindweed. My understanding is that it takes several years for it to kill the weeds, but it only kills bindweed. I don't think they're readily available in Utah, but somebody on the forum was going to bring some in and give infected plants away once he had some. If you search the forum for bindweed mite, you can probably find the details. Here is a link that might be useful: Long thread on weed forum

I agree with Jakabedy - I used the bag for stuff I never used again. As a matter of fact, I just put the four love seat slipcovers I had in these bags out for Purple Heart. Mine were the vacuum-out-the-air kind. Mine did leak. Steph - I have asthma reactions to the very same things you mentioned! We get unscented products because of this. I cannot have ammonia or any heavy-duty cleaners. Gasoline or diesel exhausts and old-fashioned oil paints and stains also did me in. I stained a garden bench last Sunday, though, and it did me no harm. I think they finally got the worst chemicals out of stains. As for perfume, I get a tickle in my lungs that makes me cough uncontrollably. We had to stop going to the opera because of it. With opera tickets, you sit next to the same people each time because you all bought season tickets. One of the ladies near us must have had really offensive perfume, I just could not take it. It is no fun to spend the night strategically working to prevent myself from coughing. With your sensitivities, do you have an asthmatic reaction? Headaches?

I can do the same thing too but I miss the convenience of the list of recent pages because (for example) if I wanted to go back 5 pages, I could click once on the 5th page back instead of clicking the back arrow 5 times. I still have the IE browser, but I also like the edge browser and find it works a little faster with Windows 10 on my computer. I do miss the menu bar, though. Thanks for responding. I should note that I'm the op, it's just my username got changed somehow when I logged on to post my question.