Potting On The Newly Rooted Plants.

 I potted on all these new plants that I divided and took cuttings of a few weeks ago.

My neighbour down the road had his drive rechipped and tarred.   

They gave us the old top surface It's a very sandy mix.  These are the kind neighbours who leave us the bag of vegetables peelings under a upturned plant pot for the livestock on their garden wall.

One of the contractors came up and asked me if I could find some where for the scrapings?

"Something for free?" 🤔 thinks me.

Two Bobcat skid steer buckets later I had my very own cuttings mix.  On inspection it's very gritty sand and contains soil and well composted plant tissue like leaves.

A nice sandy mix for my cuttings. 

A bucket full of free draining cutting mix and it's  free!

It's  got absolutely perfect drainage and not too rich in nitrogen to start off cuttings.

I took lots of cuttings and divisions and used the scrapings for my cuttings mix.  Remember when I showed you my cuttings floor several blog posts back?

Yesterday I gently tugged the cuttings to see if there was any resistance and pulled them out of the sandy rooting medium.

One rooted Osteospermum (Cape Daisy) cutting.  I never cease to be amazed when I see newly formed roots.  I think Mother Nature sews them on to the cuttings while we sleep.🤔

It's always worth taking some of these frost tender plants cuttings at this time of year.  I lost most of mine in 2010 when we had the biggest snow accumulation for fifty years and we were snowed in for a fortnight.  

I could also have waited for leaves to form and roots to appear out of the drainage holes in the plant pots.

I wanted the room to take more cuttings so I began potting up the newly rooted plants in their own individual plant pots.

There are Osteospermums,  Shasta Daisies,  Bergenia, Hebes,  Hypericum, Cotoneasters, variegated grasses, Phormiums, 🌹 🥀 and Hydrangeas.  Rugosa cuttings are my next project.

Plant propagation costs very little.  All it needs is a pair of scissors ✂️,  some free cuttings, free plant pots (I have hundreds that people have gave me!), a watering can, water and some plant rooting material like that's  preferably free and most of all patience!

Are you propagating plants at the moment?  My plant nursery is getting ever fuller.  I must grow more veg.😀

By the way I have had two thousand seven hundred views so far today.  Either blog stats have gone crazy or there's a lot of folk out there who like Prog Rock?