weed control in daylily and hosta beds?
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Chickens in the hosta and daylily beds?
Comments (4)Plagues of locusts ain't got nuthin' on chickens in a garden....*L* Also, they DIG. Big time. I checked and I can't find out whether Hostas are toxic to chickens or not--Hostas simply don't appear on the 'toxic' or 'non-toxic' plant lists on the web. Anyone here know? If you DO decide to go ahead with it, you'll have to grab a cup of coffee and a chair and sit alongside the tractor watching them. That way you'll know if 10 minutes is enough to take care of weeds and pests without obliterating your plants, or if it's more like 30 minutes. You also need to be prepared in the event that they ignore the weeds and feast on the real plants. :) Lots of people use chicken tractors very successfully, but you'll have to fine-tune your own experience and tailor your technique to your birds. Velvet ~:>...See MoreWeeds and Daylilies
Comments (9)Many of the weeds you are pulling now are actually annuals that won't come back next year unless you don't mulch and they re-seed. The perennials like dandelion and Canadian thistle should be pulled but how many are you wasting your time pulling that won't come back anyway? If you heavily mulch over all of them then you can worry about it in the spring. The ones that are very hardy and can come up through the mulch in the spring will be the ones you want to pull. I admit I am a very lazy gardener and just refuse to do work that isn't necessary!...See MoreWeed control
Comments (2)Snapshot and Preen have been recommended here at the forum. I didn't have much success with either one of them. Best approach for me was to put cardboard or 8 layers of newspaper down, and cover with mulch. We are now using 4-pronged cultivator and hoe (the kind that is a loop on the end), and just simply staying after it a little at a time. Winter will help. This has been our worst year for weeds in six years of raising daylilies. Nancy Nancy...See MoreFor those with a lot of hostas, how are you controlling sl
Comments (16)Cindy, when you put out your bait, think like a slug--which is what Gesila is doing. (guffaw guffaw guffaw....) One nice thing about the ammonia/water solution is that it can also stop the sawfly larva. Heck, I don't just spray it. I dunk the pot into the 10% solution. So far no hosta has been killed in filming this documentary. I might be more accelerated with insects and slimy critters than many in a more northerly clime. I'm already dealing with foliar nematodes--which Hosta Yoda Ken says tells him a lot about my growing climate. I now can recognize the silvery slime trail around the soil of my pots, not on the ground like a slugs, but inside the pots. My observation is they are not chewing on the plants in the pots where the silver slime appears. The plants chewed up have no slime trails. However, I received the rolls of copper "slug tape" to stick to the perimeter of hosta pots. Each roll has only 15 feet of tape, and I have 130 hosta (thereabouts, I am in denial)so I ordered 5 rolls for the present. If it works, I can always order more. I also ordered the Sluggo Plus. Like Gesila said, this sprinkled around the perimeter of the bed, or around the base of the pots in a random pattern, seems to be keeping the slugs down. Of course, it keeps saying RAIN forecast and no rain, so that may be keeping the slug numbers down too. I won't be putting out more slug bait until I get the new shade structure complete and the bulk of my plants will go beneath its 90% shade cloth. Then with the pine bark in place I'll dose it good with slug bait. Let's hope the copper tape works....See Moreoursteelers 8B PNW
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