Kitchen Garden

INCREASE YOUR HERBS

Nurturing little cuttings to becoming new plants is a magical process and a thriving herb garden is a real pleasure. Herbs not only add flavour to your meals and provide ingredients for teas and herbal remedies but are a great benefit to wildlife that can forage from the flowers and overwinter in the woody stems. Propagation is a great way of making lots of plants to share and sell, as well as for your garden.

May and June is an ideal time to take cuttings. Propagating plants from cuttings, ‘vegetative propagation’, creates new plants which have the same properties as their parent and is especially helpful for

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