It didn't happen over night, but I am completely blaming lockdown. I have become a crazy plant lady, I mean gardener.
For the first time ever, I couldn't just rush to the garden centre in spring and buy loads of poor unsuspecting plants to slowly kill. I had to put a bit of effort in, taking time to germinate and nurture seedlings on from carefully selected seeds, some of these were even posted from a friend who had surplus and posted me some. Whilst we are huge advocates of The Good Life, the actual growing part of gardening has never a particula forte of mine, so this was a bit of a challenge. Especially as the shops were shut.
Some plants grew and were a success, like courgettes, and miniature cosmos. Others, like my runner beans were a disaster, they were doing well in their trays but I planted them out and then the slugs had a field day!
One thing that is clear, last summer my tiny shoe box of a garden looked the best it ever has and it cost next to nothing. I used lolly pop sticks and wrote on wooden pegs to use as plant markers to identify the plants. I re-used old pots, sticks and egg boxes that we saved from around the house and most importantly I really considered what I wanted to grow. Some food, some flowers seemed a good balance.
At the same time I started to think about propagating my indoor plants, inspired by accounts I follow on instagram I decided to have a go at growing some plant babies of my own and it was a lot easier that I had expected.
We have created a personalised propagator to make the job of growing more of your favourite plants even easier!
Simply place a cutting in each test tube, with cool water and wait until white roots start to grow from the bottom of the stem. When the roots get to be about a half-inch long, remove from the tube and plant in potting soil. Make sure you don't wait too long, as the roots will not acclimate to soil.
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