Hardening Off Seedlings and Plants
You’ve started plenty of seedlings or cuttings indoors or you have houseplants to move outdoors for the summer. No problem:Continue Reading
Category: Plant propagation
Share Your Surplus Plants
Spring is the main season for moving plants around. You plant out summer bulbs and annuals, dig up, move andContinue Reading
Rooting Cuttings Step by Step
Growing plants from cuttings is far from a new technique. Ever since plants have existed, they’ve been sprouting from cuttingsContinue Reading
Can You Root a Christmas Tree?
Can you get a Christmas tree to put out roots? Can you root a Christmas tree? The question wasContinue Reading
Apple Seeds Rarely Give Interesting Fruits
Question: Ten years ago, I planted some apple seeds and kept one plant that has since grown on to becomeContinue Reading
Fall is For Dividing Peonies
Yes, fall is the right season for dividing herbaceous peonies (Paeonia lactiflora and others), but I have to stress rightContinue Reading
Save Those Broken Stems!
Unless you’re a much more delicate with your planting habits than I am, it’s almost inevitable that you’ll end up accidentallyContinue Reading
When to Use a Mini-Greenhouse for Cuttings
Taking cuttings of houseplants is simple enough – in most cases, you just stick the cutting upright in moist pottingContinue Reading
Give Fine Seeds a Shake
It is easy enough to space medium-sized and large seeds correctly at sowing time, but what about very fine seed?Continue Reading
Soak Those Seedlings Free
When you start your own seeds, you often find yourself in a situation where they become too crowded and startContinue Reading