27 April 2025
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Take cuttings now to increase plant stocks, says Ruth
One of my pet domain of the garden is our collection of herbaceous plant can on the terrace .
It ’s situated closely to the back door for kitchen gizmo and is made up of a couple of small alcove trees , a clump of unlike varieties of deal and thyme , some cive , a Russian sage and a fabulous sage called ‘ Honey Melon ’ which has steeple of bright scarlet flowers and leaves that smell of Citrullus vulgaris .
I know the dissimilar varieties of mint that are available these days , but it is important to maturate them separately because they will quickly suffer their private characteristic of taste and smell if grown in the same container .
They are also better grown in pots as they will quickly take over when grown in the boundary line and even start popping up in the lawn , as I have discovered to my price .
Hardy herb are some of the easy plants to disperse by cuttings and I like to have a few on standby to replace old plants that have grow woody or buy the farm . We also use them a lot in cookery so it ’s handy to have several favourites dot about the garden .
This week I ’ve been taking cutting from our massive common salvia in the back garden rockery . I ’ll finally add up the young plants to the front garden as salvia is a favourite with the bees , who presently ask all the help they can get .
A sadder chore this calendar week was removing a huge Levisticum officinale plant life that had grow to around 3 thou ( 12 ft ) magniloquent and started taking over its border , swamp everything around it and collapsing on itself .
We planted it class ago and it looked amazing for a few years , towering over everything around it . But we never used it in cooking and once it outgrew its spot it had to go , which is a shame , but at least we have go back a gravid area of land in the veg patch for grow other victual .
herbaceous plant cuttings
Making more sage plant life
1 . take away a healthy , 10 atomic number 96 ( 4 in ) distance of increment using sharp , clean secateurs or scissors .
2 . undress out the down leaves and plunge the stinger stem in endocrine settle pulverisation or gel .
3 . Insert the cutting around the bound of a stool of dampened seed compost mingle with vermiculite .
4 . seal off the pot in a clear moldable suitcase , or sure-enough nursing bottle , and place it somewhere quick out of verbatim sunshine . Keep compost damp , remove the cover when the cuttings bulge to grow .
Digging out an honest-to-goodness Levisticum officinale
1 . Once I cut down the Levisticum officinale I had to disunite up the massive and deeply - rout crown with a sharp spade and dig it out plane section by section . heavy employment !
2 . Lovage has slurred hollow stem which I have saved and tied into package . Once they have been hung and dry out I ’ll use them as insect hotel in winter .
