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Hosta_crazed
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 12:03 am EST : |   
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Very nice garden. I say instead of Gin and Tonic. Go grab a Whiskey Sour (Hosta) of course and find a place to plant it.
Kymmie
Hosta_crazed
- New Jersey,
Zone "6"
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Pixieforest
My Weather
My Time
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 08:20 pm EST : |
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Favorite spot in the garden, by our back door.
Hotlanta Zone 7
Pixieforest
- Georgia,
Zone "Zone 7"
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Roelie
My Garden
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 02:39 pm EST : |
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I am a clematisfan but I saw your hostabed and liked it very much
Roelie
- Overijssel,
Zone "Holland"
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Starzgarden
| | Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 08:53 am EST : |
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What a treat seeing these beautiful hosta gardens! Looking forward to more pics.
Starzgarden
- Michigan,
Zone "five"
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Perkie
| | Posted on Friday, September 01, 2006 - 01:31 am EST : |
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Indeed - more pictures please!
Gerda
Perkie
- Gelderland,
Zone "Nederland"
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Bbautista
My Weather
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 02:56 pm EST : |
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Oh, Lu- I love all those minis!!
Nice fairy bed!
Brenda
Bbautista
- GA,
Zone "7b"
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Serenitybench
My Weather
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 06:34 pm EST : |
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HOW PRETTY!!!!!!!!
Serenitybench
- PaOhio,
Zone "5a"
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Patty_3411
| | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 05:39 pm EST : |
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Hey Pixieforest,
What is the mini blue in the top centre pot? It is adorable! (As are the others, but I am particularly captivated by this one?)
Patty
Patty_3411
- ONT,
Zone "5"
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Perennial_lady
| | Posted on Thursday, December 07, 2006 - 03:57 pm EST : |
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EJ I read in a first mazagine that to get rid of snails around your hostas. To put eggs shells around the base of them .The snails dont like them because it cuts them when they walk on them and dont come back I,m going to try it in the spring and see if it works as our perennials are dormnt now . trying to help
Perennial_lady
- Ontario,
Zone "5a"
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Perkie
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 07:17 am EST : |
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I wish this were true - I once saw a picture of a snail on the sharpest point of a razor-blade, just creeping over it as it was nothing special!
There are many things said about keeping away snails, but until now I have not found it possible: they just are fond of most of the hosta-leaves, but not of those hosta's with very thick leaves!
Gerda
Perkie
- Gelderland,
Zone "Nederland"
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Sunnyday2day
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 08:19 am EST : |
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I had very good luck with coffee grounds for keeping away the slugs. I used fresh and used...both worked. They are poison to slugs. I keep coffee grounds all year and then buy whatever cheap coffee to make up for what I'm short in the spring time. The grounds are good for the soil as well.
Sunnyday2day
- Michigan,
Zone "5"
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Ej
My Favorite Photo
My Weather
My Garden
My Time
| | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 08:26 pm EST : |
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Though I never tried egg shells I have used coconut shells commercially produced for ground mulch. I think that this fine grade mulch, like coffee grounds, stick to their slimy little bodies and provides them with a joyful discomfort. I used to have roadrunners that kept them under controls but development have pushed them out.
Ej So.Cal. Zone 10a
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Gardenbug
| | Posted on Saturday, December 09, 2006 - 09:04 pm EST : |
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I've been told to use a bleach (javex) formula on hostas in the Fall to prevent the slugs from overwintering at the heart of the plant. I do not know the details on quantity. I did not have time for much autumn clean-up this year.
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Loretta
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 04:19 pm EST : |
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Pixieforest, I doubt you will see this but could you name a couple of your hostas. Or if anyone else knows. In particular:
The two in the tallest pot centered against the house, the light blue solid directly to the left against the house and the small solid spikey chartreuse one forward all the way to the left.
Loretta
- NJ,
Zone "6"
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Lindac
| | Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 01:20 am EST : |
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There is a product called "escargo" that is an iron compound, non toxic to dogs, squirrels and other furry things but deadly to snails and slugs. Expensive but well worth it. You have to reapply about every 6 weeks, but eventually you really reduce the population.
Linda C
Lindac
- Iowa,
Zone "4-5"
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Jims_wsw
My Weather
| | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 01:58 pm EST : |
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I saw at a local nursery & feed store a big box of (probably spelled wrong) diacaminous earth, in the section for swimming pool supplies. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this was prickly rocky stuff that snail & slugs hate to cross. But I thought that it was more expensive than the $12 or so for the swimming pool stuff. Was for about 20 pounds.
Has anyone ever tried the garden kind and/or the swimming pool kind and are they the same?
I picked up a liquid spray there on closeout that was supposed to deter the critters, but haven't tried it yet. So far the s&s are not as prevalent this year, even tho we have had a lot of rain.
Marie in ME
Jims_wsw Maine zone 5a |
Jims_wsw
My Weather
| | Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 11:35 pm EST : |
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Did a google & found answer to my question.
One site said "Diatomaceous Earth sold for swimming pool filters is dangerous to human health, your pets and Livestock. It has been chemically treated and heated to change it's composition."
Noticed more snails & slugs today, so I will have to try the liquid concentrate. It is "No Escape Slug & Snail Killer" by Bonide Products.
The bottle has a way to attach a hose for spraying and information of how much to mix for use with watering can.
Jims_wsw Maine zone 5a |
