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Planting dormant hostas?

gardenfanatic2003

19 years ago

Yes, it's November, and I'm still planting hostas. A few of them had gone dormant in their pots (bright yellow, limp leaves), but I went ahead and planted them like I normally would. Anything need to be done differently when planting an already dormant hosta?

Deanna

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esther_opal
19 years ago
I would plant kind of high and mulch 4inches.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
19 years ago
mulch insures against winter heave .... planted to late.. they don't have a chance to 'grab hold' ...

mulch allows the soil to get frozen [in z5] and stay frozen.. so the plant stays in the ground ... snow is a great blanket.. if it will be there reliably for the whole winter ...

not mulched.. no snow .... repeated freeze thaw.. and stuff mysteriously works its way out of the soil ... you might not believe how many rocks i find every spring ... lol ...

other than that ... they are hosta ... as long as they stay in the ground ... they will be fine ...

ken
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