Let's face facts: gardening is expensive. Learning how to take root cuttings, then, is a brilliant way to fill your garden with plants for free – especially as it works best on perennial plants ...

Root cuttings need reasonable compost, a moderate but steady temperature, space and a little patience. But, unlike stem or leaf cuttings, root cuttings develop underground so you can't see what's ...

Growing purple leaf plum from cuttings proved to be tricky and I would consider myself lucky if half of them successfully took root. Once I got the hang of it, the task of making cuttings and ...

Make an angled cut just above the top bud and a horizontal cut just below the bottom one. To encourage rooting, wound each cutting at the base by removing a thin layer of wood with a sharp knife ...

If a healthy root system can be achieved via stem-cuttings, there will be minimal difference in fruit quality. As for pest control, avoid overusing Spinosad, as it is expensive and pests can ...

BORON has been observed to stimulate the rooting of large-flowered hybrid clematis cuttings. In two studies recently carried out, increased percentages of cuttings rooted and the rooting process ...