How to Root Tomato Plants

One of the easiest ways to multiply the number of tomato plants in your garden is rooting them.   And your new plants are free! Back in my days of growing lots of tomato plants, I would root them by using Rootone and planting directly into the soil or containers. Click here for another...

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How To Grow Plants From Seeds and Cuttings

Although I love to go shopping for beautiful blooming plants, there is something about the challenge and wonder of nature that growing from seeds and cuttings brings.  My love for propagating plants goes back to my childhood days! Click here for a very informative article on seeds and cuttings,...

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Central Florida Gardening Calender

June is a great month to propagate those landscape plants!  Don't spend a lot of money for future landscaping by multiplying your inventory.  Click here for an article on propagation. Central Florida gardeners (zone 9) will love the gardening calender from the University of Florida Extension...

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How to Root Basil Indoors

If you love to cook using fresh basil, here are some ways to start new plants. I've had great success propagating basil from cuttings . . . take a cutting and prepare as shown in the photo, dip in rooting hormone, plant in a container with well draining soil, water regularly and keep in indirect...

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Calissia fragrans . . . thriving in my Paradise

This is an older post from another blog  that I am currently restructuring. The calissia fragrans are still thriving, although the unusually cold winter knocked them down a bit this year. I'm currently propagating them from runners and cuttingsin containers and will start another "farm" in the...

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Aucuba . . . the plant with the look of the tropics

It is one of those plants that thrived in my father's garden, a successful result of his passion for propagating plants collected in his travels. The shrub in the photo from my garden is a result of several years growth from the cuttings I took from his yard. The aucuba plant is one of my favorites. Our...

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Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is a durableflowering succulent that requires littlemaintenance and can be grown eitherindoors or outdoors.Their fleshy, dark shiny green leaves will reach 3 inches (7.7 cm) long by up to 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) wide with lobed edges.Floral colors range from the traditional red to...

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