Dividing Hostas

Fall is a great time of a year to divide hostas. In this video Chris from HostasDirect gives you step by step, hands on instructions on how to Dig, De-dirt, and Divide hostas.

[alexfenton]

Wow, from the comments it seems like the subject of Hosta splitting is just as divisive as politics! Funny how everyone presumably watched the video for guidance, then half of them were derisive because an expert didn’t support their ‘Shovel Hacking’ method! If you don’t like this guy’s gardening dogma, zip it and scroll on. 🙄

[carlasharpe]

What are u using dude?, shovel for the kids, lol. I enjoyed your video

[lindalober]

Thanks for sharing, what is eating the leaves? Looks familiar on some of my Hosta's, how do I prevent this from happening to my plants. Neem Oil solution?

[nashwaran]

How to safe guard hostas from slugs and snails

[bclibrarian]

very interesting. yikes, i jam my shovel into the hasta, split and plant. i have beautiful hastas everywhere

[starshot]

Massive overkill! Just chop it with a spade & it's done in a minute, no need for all that sterilising & washing. Many youtubers now are vastly overcomplicating stuff just to stretch it out for advertising. They're trying to reinvent the wheel.

[kernelpanic]

So much critical negative comment. This man works in a nursery. When you're selling plants to the public, you do everything you can to insure their health and vitality. You separate you hosta clumps in a way that does the least damage to the roots. You use a small shovel because it's a more discrete tool in this situation. Sterilization is a precaution against spreading anything from disease to weeds to pesty things from where you previously dug with that tool. Great job. As a professional gardener, I also take these and other kinds of precautions so I don't bring weed seeds and plant diseases from one garden to another. In my own home garden, I do or don't do as I please. Happy Gardening to All! Have a Great Spring! Plants are Amazing, aren't they?

[tomaaron]

Way easier with a long handled shovel. Dig it up 10 seconds...cut it into slices (like a pizza) and plant. About a minute. Forget about all the washing, looking for divisions, etc.

[adecuire]

I really like the way you did it. I feel like you saved every single root.

[avtore]

Awesome video, my mom used to do this for me for my houses I've flipped and sold however, my mom is now in her 5th stage of Dementia she never taught me but this video is self explanatory so I can continue on the tradition with your help. Again thank you so very much!!!!

[korokrya]

Saving the roots by cleaning and removing the dirt and doing little to no damage to the bulbs is great. I use to do the shovel splitting but I noticed the growth on the next year wasn't as fast as I saw for my families, turns out they did it a bit more like you are. Thank you for the info!!!

[escapefromny]

I've been dividing hosta for over 30 years. I don't remove the dirt. I simply take an old clean serrated butcher knife and cut between shoots. Done and done.

[jetli]

I always divide mine when all the leaves are gone in the spring and the shoots are just starting to show. I just use the shovel to cut full depth pieces off and leave the dirt on. And they spread like weeds.

[justsmitn]

I just use a shovel to split mine. Never had a problem.

[mskudlarczyk]

Tooo much work
I just dig n split with shovel never had issues ...didnt know ppl did this...neat vlog

[aljawharaalbakry]

Thank you for this lovely and thorough instructional video, I have enjoyed and learnt alot

[briand]

Such much work! They're hostas! Dig up the clump with a shovel; lay the clump on its side; take said shovel and put it against the root ball; step on the shovel to divide; replant.
Done.

[cutazabutton]

I can see that by de-dirting you lose far fewer roots, therefore less root disturbance.

[TheChartruese]

Why does the soil need to be soaked off of the roots? I have always taken off a piece and transplanted it.

[Neyobe]

I don’t know why there are so many negative comments