I really felt the pain when Monty chopped the Hosta plant

kind of gone off hostas so was wishing he was chopping them up for the compost bin.

i got fed up long time ago providing breakfast,lunch and dinner for the slugs and snails in my garden

Thanks for the reminder Diane, I must split mine as they need it and was unable to do them last year, will certainly be using two forks....

There is hope for England yet !

cut my Hostas with a knife, they were fine, water with slug clear, then stand potted plant in an old copper coal bucket or any copper bucket etc., ( potting straight into copper can affect the plant) and you will have no problems, as long as the plant does not touch any other plant were the slugs can more from one plant to the other

I've used both methods and the plants thrived in either case.

I have to say that when I do get around to splitting my hostas a bit of the old brute force and ignorance will probably have to come into force as they have been in their pots for years and if they don't split with use of the two forks I will of course fall back onto my trusty old kitchen knife as well...