Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
Lee-Roy, the hostas are a nice addition. For slugs you might try spreading sharp gravel around the bases of the hostas. Slugs will not crawl over that. I have heard crushed eggshells work also but have not tried that myself.
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.