Usually, January is the month for feeding all the houseplants, but, I have been busy organizing and cleaning different areas of the house. Unfortunately, some of them started to show signs of neglect,

It has been so warm this week with sunny days and now rainy ones too. I took a little walk around the yard to check out the gardens. I grabbed the camera and took a few shots of what was still growing.

Bob is showing us the developed root ball. The roots have filled the plastic bottle that was put around the limb after the cambium layer was removed and the bottle was filled with growing medium. Bob will

Bob will show you a technique to create a new tree by growing a “root ball” on a limb. In this demonstration, he is propagating a new tree from the limb of a holly tree. This technique can also be easily

Those are some black and red currants cuttings we took in autumn and then put them in the fridge. They were wrapped in wet cloth and in a plastic bag. The experiment was can we store cuttings during the

I've been trying all winter to get a clipping of my Tropical Passionfruit to root but it just was not taking for me. I finally went to a method I use for certain plants and this method worked wonders!

Layering is a form of propagation where the desired material is not removed from the mother plant before it has formed roots. This utilizes a plants natural abilities and tendency to form new roots if

These are similar to softwood cuttings except they have matured a little more and can be taken later in the growing season. image source These are longer than your softwood cutting and so should typically

Blossoms or fruit are removed from branches before air layering. Air layering is an asexual or vegetative method of propagating trees without planting seeds or taking cuttings. Roots actually form while

Day 3 on the homestead. Work continues in earnest today. Day 1 (Sunday ) was church and then grocery store , errands, etc. We had a fire at night and burned some debris that had accumulated from the last