Easy Fall Propagation Techniques
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Article by: Michael McGroarty As a home , Mustard: The Greatest Among The Herbs gardener, fall , Growing Nostalgic "Old Roses" In Your Garden should be a very special time for you. Fall , Growing Grass Under Trees is the best season , How To Build A Garden Bench of the year for plant , Trees propagation, especially for home , Easy Working With Cordless Lawn Mowers gardeners who do not have the luxury of intermittent mist. The technique that I am going to describe here can be equally effective for evergreens as well as many deciduous plants. , Orchid Myths -The Truth The old rule of thumb was to start doing hardwood cuttings of evergreens after you have experienced at least two hard freezes. After two hard freezes the plants , Garden Ponds are completely dormant. However, based on my experience it is beneficial to start doing your evergreen cuttings earlier than that. So instead of doing "by the book" hardwood cuttings you're actually working with semi-hardwood cuttings. The down side to starting your cuttings early is that they will have to be watered daily unless you experience rain showers. , Mustard: The Greatest Among The Herbs The up side is that they will start rooting sooner, and therefore are better rooted when you pull them out to transplant them. To prepare an area in which to root , Spurce Up Your Garden With Decorative Birdhouses cuttings you must first select a site. An area that is about 50% shaded will work great. Full sun , Stump Grinders - Use Stump Grinders Safely! will work, it just requires that you tend to the cuttings more often. Clear all grass , A Garden Bench: A Beautiful Addition To Any Garden or other vegetation from the area that you have selected. The size of the area is up to you. Realistically, you can fit about one cutting per square inch of bed , Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Increase Safety and Decrease Expense area. You might need a little more area per cutting, it depends on how close you stick the cuttings in the sand. , Growing Grass Under Trees Once you have an area cleared off all you have to do is build a wooden , Hardy Hibiscus frame and lay it on the ground in the area that you cleared. Your frame is a simple as four 2 by 4's or four 2 by 6's nailed together at each corner. It will be open on the top and open on the bottom. Just lay it on the ground in the cleared area, and fill it with a coarse grade of sand. , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest This sand , Using Plants To Make Us Happier should be clean (no mud or weed , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (part 18) Gray Mould seed), and much coarser than the sand , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (part 18) Gray Mould used in a play box. Visit your local , A Garden Bench: A Beautiful Addition To Any Garden builders supply center and view each sand , Would You Like More Information About Climbing Roses? pile they have. They should have different grades varying from very fine to very coarse. You don't want either. You want something a little more coarse than their medium grade. But then again it's not rocket science, so don't get all worked up trying to find just the right grade. Actually, bagged swimming pool filter sand , Fountains of Refreshment also works and should be available at discount home , Growing Nostalgic "Old Roses" In Your Garden centers. Once your wooden , The World of Herbs frame is on the ground and filled with sand, , Growing Sweet Peas you're ready to start sticking cuttings. Wet the sand , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? the day before you start, that will make it possible for you to make a slit in the sand , Teak Furniture - A Cut Above The Rest that won't fill right in. In this propagation box you can do all kinds of cuttings, but I would start with the evergreens first. Taxus, Junipers, and Arborvitae. Make the cuttings about 4" long and remove the needles from the bottom two thirds of the cuttings. Dip them in a rooting compound and stick them in the sand , Saving Seeds from Your Garden about an inch or so. Most garden , ing: Plants and Gardens centers sell rooting compounds. Just tell them that you are rooting hardwood cuttings of evergreens. When you make the Arborvitae cuttings you can actually remove large branches from an Arborvitae and just tear them apart and get hundreds of cuttings from one branch. When you tear them apart that leaves a small heel on the bottom of the cutting. Leave this heel on. It represents a wounded area, and the cutting will produce more roots , Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring Display because of this wound. Once the weather , The Cottage Garden gets colder and you have experienced at least one good hard freeze, the deciduous plants , Unique Flowers make a memorable gift! should be dormant and will have dropped their leaves, and you can now propagate them. Just make cuttings about 4" long, dip them in a rooting compound and stick them in the bed , Easy Working With Cordless Lawn Mowers of sand. , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat Not everything will root , How To Build A Garden Bench this way, but a lot of things will, and it takes little effort to find out what will work and what won't. This is a short list of just some of the things that root , Garden Benches - What They Are fine this way. Taxus, Juniper, Arborvitae, Japanese Holly, Blue , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? Boy/Girl Holly, Boxwood, Cypress, Forsythia, Rose , Finding Garden Benches: Get the Perfect Look for Your Garden of Sharon, Sandcherry, Weigela, Red Twig Dogwood, Variegated Euonymus, Cotoneaster, Privet, and Viburnum. Immediately after sticking the cuttings thoroughly soak the sand , Would You Like More Information About Climbing Roses? to make sure there are no air , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? pockets around the cuttings. Keep the cuttings watered once or twice daily as long as the weather , How To Build A Garden Bench is warm. Once winter , Gardening on a Budget sets it you can stop watering, but if you get a warm dry spell, water , Online FTD Florists during that time. Start watering again in the spring , Add Some Enchantment To Your Backyard With A Garden Gazebo and throughout out the summer. , Would You Like More Information About Climbing Roses? The cuttings should be rooted by late spring , Why Should You Own a Greenhouse? and you can cut back on the water, , Orchid Myths -The Truth but don't let them dry out to the point that they burn up. By fall , A Garden Bench: A Beautiful Addition To Any Garden you can transplant them to a bed , A Garden Bench: A Beautiful Addition To Any Garden and grow , Gardening on a Budget them on for a year or two, or you can plant , The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design them in their permanent location. , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat This technique takes 12 months, but it is simple and easy. You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information , The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design at the end. Website URLs must be active links. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliate link, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htmMichael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit his most interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign up for his excellent gardening , Hardy Hibiscus newsletter. Article provided by http://gardening-articles.com |
  
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