I have been taking lots more cuttings over the last few days: Cotoneaster, Hypericum and Rugosa rose and Photinia or Red Robin cuttings to be precise.
If I took the fully intact Lucozade plastic bottles to the "Return" machines in all the Irish supermarkets. I would get a receipt for 25 Cents per bottle.
Incidentally I was reading online the other day and it said none of the "Return" paper receipts can be recycled. I suppose it's the ink? 🤔
There are also no machines petfood tins or one for bottles.
Instead of taking the bottles back I have cut the bottles in half and made cuttings cloches or mini greenhouses out of them.
They retain the moisture after watering them and protect tender plants from slugs and snails damage.
My plastic plant propagation method is a good way of making new plants for free.
Anyone take cuttings? I seem to make them most days at the moment. Perhaps I am a plant propagator addict?
I wish I could take some of those cuttings off your hands!
ReplyDeleteCrikey - that means you paid 25cents for each bottle (unless like me, you pull them out of hedgerows, wash out the slugs, and put them to use!)
ReplyDeleteI have some great new shrubs like Hydrangeas JayCee. I would give you them for free.
ReplyDeleteYes TM. It's amazing how many people take their plastic bottles to the supermarkets for their deposit. Perhaps I should go litter picking and looking for plastic bottles in litter bin? I would make more than I do with my plants at car boot sales.
ReplyDeleteNo cuttings taken here. I've tried in years gone by without much success. I do plant celery roots from the bunch I buy at the supermarket. They grow well
ReplyDeleteI guarantee your Hydrangea cuttings will "strike" roots if you use the plastic bottles propagating method Linda. I am the only human in our house that eats my Celery. Celery loves water it was originally from marshes.
ReplyDeleteI am sure you could get counselling for your condition Dave. Currently, I am hoping I can get two large cotoneaster cuttings to root and thrive.
ReplyDeleteDon't move back to the countryside YP you end up with plant cuttings itis. If you over winter your cotoneaster cuttings they will root and thrive. I grow and nourish lots of them every year. Even before I got my polytunnel I grew them in nursery beds outside in the veg plot.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to sort out previous year's cuttings that rooted!! I mustn't take any more...yet!!
ReplyDeleteGood on you Gz😀. I have some Camelia recent cuttings that look very promising. Please God!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. Also it reminds me I need to take some geranium cuttings.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tasker. It's a pleasant hobby propagating plants.
ReplyDeleteI think you have true green fingers and love what you do, I understand that as I am the same in my small garden. Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteI do love what I do Marlene. It's so easy if you get out and get your gloves in the soil. It costs nothing to make new plants.
ReplyDeleteI have just one cutting, at the moment, which I might have taken from the apartment I stayed at in Hebden Bridge. In my defence, it was very tiny and it wouldn't have been noticed.
ReplyDeleteAnything interesting Jules? I took over twenty shrub cuttings yesterday.
ReplyDeleteJust a Pilea. So far, it looks like it's rooted well. 🌱
DeleteExcellent. I am going to collect more Hydrangea cuttings today Jules.
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