All I do is get an old bread knife and split them up. You don't even need any hormone rooting powder.
Just pop them in a small plant pot filled with compost and give them a good watering. Some of them will still have their roots attached.
Make plant cloches out of plastic bottles. I repurposed mine last year and use them over again.
They are mini greenhouses and retain moisture and protect vulnerable young veg plants like lettuces from slugs and snails or the "flickers" which I call them.
This really is easy-peasy gardening.
Here's some I made earlier. Last year I made a lot of them and propagated lots of cuttings.
I made 50 Sedum new plants yesterday. I will make sure they get watered daily until the showers begin this week in earnest.
In three weeks time there will be 50 rooted Sedum plants 🪴 that cost me nothing. Just some good potting compost and my time.
Oh and about half an hour listening to prog rock on Spotify on my mobile phone. The prog rock listening is not essential but it is to me.😃
I will probably sell the Sedum plants at a carboot for the bargain price of a Euro each. I may even pot them on.
I believe anyone can have a nice garden and it doesn't need to cost the earth. Just some compost and some patience is all it takes.
I got some posh plastic plant covers cheap from Temu, they work and look a bit nicer, I got fed up with so many bottles in my garden.
ReplyDeleteYes Marlene Temu and Geek are very inexpensive. I try to repurpose what ever I can for free or very little.
DeleteEverything is growing like mad now. Though the rains are over I think. My ssage cuttings have sprouted roots. I'll put them in a pot soon. The basil is growing. Wonder what my tomatoes will do
ReplyDeleteGood to read Linda. My tomatoes did much better planted in the ground than in pots last year. They have instant access to fym and ground water. It's gone very cold here at night.
ReplyDeleteWe had a good gentle rain yesterday. It will makes things grow.
ReplyDeleteWe have had soft rain showers Rachel but it gets very cold at night.
DeleteI must chop off some bits from the sedums growing in my terracotta plant trough. They have grown very fast and it is overflowing!
ReplyDeleteYour trough runneth over JayCee. Time to get out the scissors or secateurs me thinks? You can pop them in a glass of water to root.
ReplyDeleteAnd serums are tops for bee friendly gardens. We grew swathes of them around the beehives.
ReplyDeleteBuddleia also attractive the flutter flies in droves TM. The sedums make me sad when they flower in September and they show winter is on it's way.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fine crop of plastic bottles you have got there! Will you also be planting tin cans this year?
ReplyDeleteWell I repurpose heating oil tanks, tractor tyres and old plastic baths for growing our veg YP. So why not? Will they get wire worm?😊
ReplyDeleteYou could grow baked beans, tomato soup and ready-canned custard.
DeleteOnly if they are Heinz.
DeletePerhaps the plants also enjoy the prog rock :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe Jules. I could call one of them Robert Plant.
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