The time has come! Our Seed Pantry June Grow Club box has arrived, so we got stuck in quickly to get our Hosta plants planted!! We have all been very excited about this! 🌿
Here is our quick guide on how to plant and care for your own Hosta plants! 👨🎓
1. Our Hostas come as bare root plants, so you can start planting them straight away, directly in borders or in containers. As they do not need as much sunlight as most plants, you can position them in shadier parts of your growing space!
2. Plant the roots 5-10cm deep and 50cm apart for tall varieties like ‘Vulcan’ and ‘Fire and Ice, and plant with 30cm of spacing for the smaller types like ‘Blue Mouse Ears’. Place the roots downwards with the growing points, facing up.
3. Cover the plants with compost, add a splash of water and wait for the magic to happen! Hostas like fertile, moisture-retentive soil for the best growing conditions.
4. As we mentioned before, Hostas like shade or part shade growing spaces and do not require as much light. This gives you the opportunity to fill darker areas of the garden that may have been left a little bare until now!
Hosta are hardy perennial plants that die back in winter and will come back each year in spring, so simply leave them to do their thing!
Container growing can help fend of slugs, as they do like to chomp on them, also you can ‘companion plant’ by adding Astilbe plants from our June box too, as they hate those and avoid them!
All in all, they are easy to grow and take care of! 😅
Visit Seed Pantry and start growing your own too! 😁
