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Looking for Large Hosta that is Slug Resistant
Comments (5)please do not interpret my exuberance about hosta with laughing at you .. forgive me for such please also note.. we have a plethora of newbies involved .... and do understand.. that when i reply i am replying to everyone .... ESPECIALLY the newbies ... i TRY [always a key word] to start at the beginning and work through the solution... i understood you were at a design level [far beyond most]... matching your two plants ... but i still explained about slugs from the beginning [e.g. claims of slug-proofed-ness].. and worked through to your solution or suggestion ... in NO WAY was the synthesis done to make you feel like you didnt know what you were doing ... ANYWAY.. you will love plantiginea .... EVERYONE has to have it ... DONT worry about slugs ... they are easily taken care of if some plague should hit ... please visit often .... AND HAVE A GREAT DAY ... ken PS: and for the rest of you ... earl grey tea is based on bergamot... which i seem to recall is monarda ... go figure on that ... but for the horrible mildew native to the plant.. i would probably have some around.. though it does tend to wander around the garden ... the smell of the crushed leaves is heavenly ... i wonder why it didnt make it in the 1500 pots i moved here.. hmmmm......See MoreYou may have missed these ---
Comments (16)How about: Space Chumps: 'Godzilla' and 'T-Rex' duke it out in the garden to make room for 'Leading Lady'! The Great Hosta Debate: Hosta teams from the Gardenweb square off on the ongoing debate--'Do hosta grow under Maple trees or not'! Alien 4: Nematodes, Southern Blight, HVX and Voles, combine forces to take over and conquer our world of Hosta!!! Be afraid--be VERY afraid! Journey End's to the Center of the Earth: Just how far down will those roots go, and what will they find when they get there--more clay, compost or voles? The Incredible Hunk: 'Sum & Substance' at Wades' Gardens, becomes enraged by the stinking corpse placed under it's roots and destroys the entire Wade-Gatton complex of hosta gardens in a mindless-fury! Sex and the Garden: 'Illicit Affair' and 'Gilt by Association' are caught once again with waving petioles inviting the buzzing bees to "come up to their place sometime"! Swinging Votes: Whose vote will ultimately determine the 'best hosta out there' anyway? Hosta people who notoriously change their minds, daily, about their favorite hosta of the year--and how they finally decide which it is and stick with it!! Come see if it is it possible? The Rainmaker 3: Once again, the drought has stricken and this time it has overtaken our friend, Phil and the Rainmaker fails to *bring it on*!!! What will it take, to make the rain come to 'hosta heaven'? Will his hosta survive in a waterless wasteland? We sure hope so! Be sure to catch the sequel, The Rainmaker Finally Did it! coming out this Fall! More to come, I'm sure (taking a break from sewing valances)!! ;o)...See MoreCopper foil versus slugs
Comments (18)Copper ? not a practical way to combat slugs.MO. If you have just a few plants, you might try it but for a garden over 100 sqr-ft , it is not practical. Number one, and best combat is to hunt them, at night , in the mornings, ... and destroy them. At the same time use slugo type stuff. I use BUG GRTA. I am also experimenting with some home recepie. Coffee grounds from your coffee machine (or starbucks..) seems to be effective too. I add some fine sand to it and I also grind egg shells in coffee mill and mix with it. SAND & EGGSHELL have roughness that slugs will get wounded when crawling on them, unlike the chemicals that do it chemically wounding their belly. Yesterday, with overcast skies and some rain, was a perfect day to hunt slugs. They come out during days like that and it is much easy to spot them. I DID that and, even though there are not that many of them in all of my veggies and flower gardens(after combating them last year and this year) yet I found some of them, mostly in non-critical areas. I did that because I do not want them exist, spread, lay eggs, etc. I found them mostly under the dead daffodils tops, in the cracks.. So it can also help if you know where they hide . then you get them. To summarize, fighting slugs in a wet , damp, rainy climate is an ongoing battle. But once you minimize their numbers, it get easier. The serious danger is to the small seedlings, early in the season....See Morehosta dx
Comments (12)Thanks everybody! Noticed a few posts were missing. I love hostas, and found recently that one has sprung up where I had one two years ago and moved it. Is that some kinda natural root division? Wow. When I first got started on the front of my house, it was nothing but weeds. No gutters, north facing.......After making some beds, my very first plants I put in were two hostas, still too much of a newbie to write down what kind they were, because one I wish I had because I am in love!!! It comes back huge, faithfully, every year, and although it doesn't bloom much, like another, the leaves are large, green, and lush. Really fills out that space on the side of the porch. As I bought a few more hostas, my only problems I could see were slugs and snails(very abundant in that environment). So, I set out some shallow dishes of beer to catch em. But, I'm learning that each hosta is different, and something is up other than heat and the slimy guys. Grasshoppers like to munch on them? Maybe they were just hiding out there. Saw some suspicious leaf spots (not sunburn or heat). Started thinking.... So thanks for all the advice, and links, and help. I started a garden journal this year, but haven't really focused on the hostas. Now I can, and as I learn, keep track of them also. Just assumed they were hardy and reliable, other than the slugs.... Anyway, thanks again!...See Moredjacob Z6a SE WI
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