How To Divide Overgrown Hostas 

It works. I did this 3 years ago. Now it's time to divide them again. You will need to buy only one Hosta and divide it year after year.

I work in a micropropagation lab just sub-cultured our hosta yesterday. This is almost exactly the process we use. I have a hard enough time getting tiny plants apart with a scalpel, I can't imagine trying to divide one this big.

that’s so cool. i have two on either side of a ground level window. i’m going to split them and fill in the whole front of the window.

OK, I feel less insecure now about doing it wrong, lol!!

Gosh, mine has been overgrown for years. They are now coming over into the walkway. I've been so scared to uproot them. They are in a great shade spot. Now I feel a bit more confident. Once they start to go back into the ground in the fall, I'll separate them. There is no telling how many plants are in there 🤦🏾‍♀️. At least I can put some under another tree and fill out some bare spots in my yard.

It looks brutal, but that's the way to do it.

It works, I do this every year

I had some overgrown hostas in my front beds; couldn’t even get a clump up with a shovel. Ended up having to cut some of them so I could get to the roots and cut the clumps *before* I could shovel them up.

It’s a tough hardy plant so a little aggression won’t hurt it’s feelings😄

How do you get them to grow so big & which one is this one

How can they grow so healthy and big when you put them in full sun like that I thought they were supposed to burn under full sun

I just bought this house and it is completely engulfed in the front with this stuff I can't stand any of it😅

This is why I wish we didn’t have these I moved in and these are getting overwhelming what a nightmare

Did you know they are edible.

What are you saying? Obviously it was doing well in “full sun”.

She is killing them😢