I have grass growing up through my hosta. How do I kill the grass?
Question:Without trying to pull evry individual stalk or killing the hostas?
Answers:
Chris , first heavily water the area . Then you can pull out the unwanted grass and it'll come out easily . Reach down to the base of each blade and you'll see that you can grab a bunch of them at the same time . Also some grasses have off-shoots so if you grab the base you'll also find those shoots and clear more than you expected with each pull .
EDIT* - I forgot . Don't spray them . Chemicals that kill grass also kill hostas . And do try to not use chemicals anyway . Chemicals kill necessary microbes/bacteria and they kill necessary insects .
Grass killer. Or just cut the grass.
Every garden centre should sell weed killer - it's a spray, and you spray all the unwanted grass with it and it dies next day with the root as well. then you can just cut it.
You have to pull it, if you spray you will most likely kill your Hostas. Clean out a large ring to keep the grass at bay and use weed cloth and mulch to cover.
This will discourage having to do it very often.
Might try using more mulch in/around hosta, but I think you are going to have to do some pulling also.
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