Plant Propagation

In this blog I’ll reveal the benefit of grafted plants to the gardener. Because nurserymen put in the hard graft so that gardeners benefit from better plants to grow! Let me explain. A [...]

Modular growing of plants is on the increase and there are many advantages to raising plants this way.   This frustrating season! Here we in mid February and hardly a thing has been sown or [...]

It’s now time to sow chillies and peppers! Chillies and peppers have gone from a novelty vegetable to one of the most popular seeds and vegetable plants. This rise in popularity reflects [...]

Plug plants have revolutionised the growing of bedding plants for both commercial and amateur gardeners. Germinating seeds of some of our favourite bedding plants can be slow, expensive and [...]

Tips on Sowing Tomato Seeds Sowing tomato seeds to raise your own tomato plants is not difficult but there are a few key points that need to be taken into consideration. I’d love to share [...]

It’s spring and I want to share a few of my tips on sowing seeds. I know that some of you will have already sown some and there’s a huge temptation to get growing. But don’t get carried [...]

Softwood Cuttings; Late Summer Propagation  Late summer and early autumn is the perfect time to propagate your favourite plants by rooting cuttings! You may want to do this to have more of garden [...]

Propagating plants by root cuttings is one of the easiest ways to multiply plants and the cuttings almost look after themselves! There are a couple of times in the year when root cuttings are [...]

Hardwood Cuttings So you don’t think that you have green fingers [thumbs if you’re American]? Can’t root cuttings eh? Well, I bet you can propagate plants by hardwood cuttings! [...]

Sow Sweet Peas in autumn. If you sow sweet peas in autumn you’ll get the very best sweet peas …but by a whisker those sown in late winter or very early spring are only a smidge [...]