It didn't occur to me to ask if you guys were cutting down the hostas in the fall- I'm just so used to cutting them down to the ground. They stay very healthy that way. When I had a large amount of hostas, I used to cut them down with everything else in November. Then they grew back so thick in the spring, they were hard to control because they came up so thick. I have about 20 hosta now and they are coming up in thicker groupings.