Discover 7 houseplant cuttings to take in January and get a head start on rooting before spring. You can use tools like a heat mat to successfully root them.

Taking cuttings from your existing plants and creating new plant babies from them is a fun, rewarding, and fairly simple process. It is super exciting to see new buds and stems appear from your ...

Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...

Propagating houseplants in water is a straightforward, low-waste, and rewarding method to expand your indoor garden. This technique, known as vegetative propagation, involves rooting plant cuttings in ...

As heat, humidity, rains, diseases and insects increase during summer months, tomato production naturally declines. Entire plants may begin to die — but it is possible to start new tomato plants from ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

Q: I have a snowball viburnum that I would like to propagate. What kind of cuttings will work best? And when is the best time to start making the cuttings? A: Propagating new plants from your own ...

Propagating snake plants from cuttings is most successful in spring or early summer when the plant is actively growing. Warmer temperatures and longer daylight hours promote faster rooting and ...

The current dormant season is the right time for dividing perennials, reported in last week’s column. It is also the right time to propagate plants from hardwood cuttings from deciduous shrubs and ...

Indoor plants are easiest to propagate when they’re actively growing in spring or summer. But if you’re looking for a fun ...

May 5, 2021 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you’re starting out with a garden, buying enough plants to cover the ground can seem really expensive. Instead, ...

Skip the store-bought stuff — this simple and creative Native American–inspired technique uses a natural helper you might already have growing outside.