Memorial Day Weekend Gardening

**Rogerson785** · 24th May 08, 12:02 PM

Memorial Day Weekend Gardening

I have been off since Friday and today I pulled some weeds, spread some new cedar mulch, and watered my two year old Hosta’s and miniature roses that should start to bloom in a week or so.

**Panache** · 24th May 08, 02:02 PM

Those are some gorgeous looking hostas.

Cheers

Jamie

**IrishGodfather** · 24th May 08, 03:43 PM

Good work there. I'll be helping my dad put a patio on the back of our house this week. Gonna be fun man, I tell ya what.

**vmac3205** · 24th May 08, 03:54 PM

Very nice.
I'm working all weekend, but got some weeding done earlier in the week.

**Arizona Scot** · 24th May 08, 03:57 PM

Yes have to work all weekend also, every one please be careful this weekend to many never come back from it.

**Mike in Dayton** · 24th May 08, 06:13 PM

The hostas look good. That brings me up to a question. First a little background. I have two hostas along the front walk that fill in the space between the walk and house. Between them I have a miniature pine but it died because the dryer vent is just behind it. Burned it up I guess. To make matter worse this is on the north side of the house so no sun. The hostas love the shade but nothing else does. Today I got a rock water fall display to occupy the spot in front of the dryer vent. Unfortunately my hostas won't look very good this year. I am overrun with rabbits and it looks like they have eaten off most of the hostas leaves. Out of all my hostas they only toched these two. I was counting on them to grow out up to the water fall. If I take the trimmers and cut the hostas off at the ground will they grow back this late in the spring?

Mike

**Rogerson785** · 24th May 08, 09:12 PM

I don’t see why the Hosta’s would not grow back, even if you were to cut them back now. Since we are in about the same zone, I think that it would be OK if you cut them back, but make sure not to completely cover them. They may continue to grow throughout the spring and summer, and I never trim them at the first frost, I never even put much over them at the first frost, now my roses that’s a whole other story.

You might try mixing a liquid pepper concoction to spray near the Hosta’s to keep the pesky rabbits away, if not B.B. or pellet guns work wonders, and you can always can the meat.

**Steve53** · 24th May 08, 10:13 PM

Hasenpfeffer on the hoof!

**Mike in Dayton** · 25th May 08, 05:51 AM

For ground hogs I use a Have-a-Heart trap; use carrots for bate. I got overrun with Ground Hogs some years back. They like to live under my shed. I must have carted 20 of them away within a couple of months that summer. The rabbits won't go into the trap as easily. My dumb dog will however so I have to put it on the other side of the fence. I am afraid my dog will tie into one of those things. A Ground Hog will clean his clock!

When I first got the trap I used crackers and peanut butter for bate. The next morning the wife came running in to inform me I had something in the trap. Great! I thought as I ran outside expecting to see a nice fat Ground Hog in the trap. My wife was rolling on the floor laughing......caught a damn bird in the trap. I divorced her.

Mike

**ThreadBbdr** · 25th May 08, 06:01 AM

Chris, those look GREAT! When you are ready to divide them at some point in the future, I'd be grateful for some starts. I want to put some hostas in on the north side of my house and in the shadow of the fence by the kitchen.

So much to do this time of year in the yard!