Yes, mint icecream is my favorite. Peppermint is my first choice but mint chocolate chip is right up there!
You have hostas in pots? Why? Of course, Bambi has completely defoliated mine. I was too laid back about getting a coyote scented board out there this year. Then one day last week, I looked out my window and saw a very trim young buck standing in my lower back yard. Dispite my animosity, I have to say he was gorgeous. Couldn't get to the camera in time. He left. Then I went down to check the hostas. What a disaster. ..... I haven't gone down there very much because the wetland in the back is loaded with water this year and the mosquitoes are fierce.
I'm fairly new to growing hostas. Most of my friends have them in pots, mainly so they can be moved around easily. I have one in a large pot and the one I was re-potting today was a variegated one with purple and white flowers that I got at the nursery recently. They do fine in our winter but can rot if it gets too wet. The pots can be moved under the eaves so they don't get too soggy.
Shall I crate up Beck and send him to you? He'll keep Bambi away.
-- Edited by meggie on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 03:29:28 AM
Hmmm? I thought hostas liked plenty of water, not aquatic water, but generous amounts of rain. This comes from my guilt reactions to not watering as much as my conscience thinks I should.
Send Beck to the rescue!!!
The people next door have an electric fence for their dog which is a marvelous, marvelous thing. However, during the later half of last winter, due to all the snow and I don't know what, their dog was getting off the property. He was in the woods out back several times. There were no more NEW deer tracks happening in my yard after this. I thanked my neighbor and could hear him making a mental note as to when winter ends, spring starts and the irises begin to happen (i.e. button down the doggie collar and fence by then)
