Hostas ready for winter

16 years ago

Checked my containers of hosta, they were frozen solid. For the last few years I've followed the advice I learned in this forum for overwintering hosta. It works very well for me. I stack them on the north side of the house. These are all one gallon, but I stack up to five gallon containers. I get very few losses. I don't do a thing to them all winter. On the first day of spring, I bring them back out into the garden.

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Janice
16 years ago
Excellent!!!

I've done the same thing (north side) and stacked them upright! I didn't lose a one of them!

Did it on the East side of our garage on concrete, too! Just sat them there, right side up, under
the slight 12" overhang! They fared very well!

Really, the only time I had any significant loss is the Spring '07--weird one, where everything
heated up for 2 weeks and then 'reality' came back causing the freeze/thaw/freeze thingy!

Never lost any in the ground, over-winter though! It's the best guarantee, BUT,
most of us have many in pots, still, at the end of the season and need this advice to
deal with survival over-winter!

Good post, and informative pic. SWMo! :o)
countrygarden01
16 years ago
Hello,
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hosta_freak
16 years ago
Hey,swmo! I've a thought. Why don't you just plant them in the ground? It looks as though they are nursery pots. Just a question? I don't keep any of them in nursery pots,and only have a few in any kind of permanent pot. Phil
swmogardens
Original Author
16 years ago
They are babies I just divided off of 3 larger hostas this year. 50 hostas off of 3 moms, what a hobby! Next spring, I'll give some away, and move the rest all around my garden. I enjoy making neat combinations of hostas in pots, rearranging them until I get just the right combinations. I like to bring some up on my deck, or into my other garden rooms. This fall I kept a couple of First frosts on the deck way late into fall. I made a pot garden area.

Here's one combo I thought looked great this year.
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That's a Liberty with a Rohdeifolia on each side.
alyciaadamo
16 years ago
I hope my gardens will be fine this spring. I am not too worried about the winter or the spring because we always get so much snow the snow acts as a mulch in the spring. I am worried about the effects this fall has done to all the plants. One day it's 12 degrees the next it's 45! We have been bouncing around in temps this last month and to top it all off I wasn't able to mulch all my beds this fall. I will take all my pots I wasn't able to plant and put them on the north side of the house. I hope it works on at least some of them.
Janice
16 years ago
Ohhhh, Swmo--I LOVE your pot-gardens!! You do a very nice job of putting them together just right!!!
Thank you for the inspiration--and thoughts of Spring!!!

janice
shade_tolerant
16 years ago
Sym pretty gardens. Your first pic shows the stacked up pots, wondering if the pots are tilted upwards at an angle to get moisture? Or am I just seeing things? I've tried a couple of pots of hostas outdoors for the winter and slightly leaned them over. They were ones I didn't mind losing but they came through just fine.