0:00 Hostas, now they will blue things but when you're getting the belly uninspired

0:05 this is what you get through the post and it looks a bit sad but in actual

0:09 fact, if you're a gardener you're an optimist, because that is going to turn

0:14 into a wonderful plant, now you put it in water overnight just give it a good soak,

0:19 24 hours do no harm and it swells up just like that, you say oh that's

0:24 starting to burst it's a greyhound it wants to go and all

0:28 it required was moisture because these are kept in cool store so they last for

0:32 ages and ages but that's ready to go now the simplest thing in the world few

0:37 pebbles in the bottom of your pot just so the water can run away multi-purpose

0:42 compost and just place it gently on the top there just spread them out quite

0:46 nicely a little bit more multi-purpose on the top there. Now Hostas got the name

0:53 from a physician to the king of Austria in the 1700 called Thomas hast so you

1:02 might like to know that now obviously there's lots of different Hostas

1:07 hundreds if you go to the website and it's the probably the multiple plant in

1:11 America but the thing is I like the common garden one sites have success

1:15 when I'm doing gardening but there's a designer range which are really equally

1:19 easy to grow but they obviously get very more expensive. Now this is alba

1:25 marginata a good doer a good grower will cause you no problems whatsoever and

1:30 grows away like that that's probably been in there six weeks and it's a

1:34 lovely thing but there's something that likes these more than me and that slugs

1:39 and snails now there are there are many ways to stop slugs and snails all wives

1:44 tales as there are hostas so one of the ways is cross gravel now Sargent snails

1:52 run on a bed of slime if you put Chris gravel in the bottom they don't like it

1:58 it's so comfortable it's not nice so you're hoping that they push off and go

2:03 somewhere else and it is a slight deterrent there's Nemus lugs which is a

2:10 clay-like product with a small microbe in that you

2:14 you're washing gives you six weeks coverage does actually work they're

2:17 really at this copper banded now here's a new thing this is really good

2:23 you can do do just as well with copper wire that's sticky-backed

2:27 you put it round the edge there right the way round so the snail comes up up

2:33 touches that this holds an electrical charge just naturally because coppers

2:37 such a good conductor holds a natural charge it touches it with its slime roof

2:42 its eyes bulge it gets all jittery and pushes off the next door's garden

2:47 fantastic this stuffed but as I say there's lots and lots but the plant

2:51 themselves are so easy you can have them in pots like that in tubs put them

2:55 straight out in the borders I do like them in pots on more say cuz I like to

3:00 be up close and comfortable with them but Albemarle Janata are a designer one

3:05 try these it fantastic