HOW ELSE CAN I PROPAGATE SEEDS?

Posted on Apr 02, 2009 under Herbal | No Comment

Many herbs growing low to the ground propagate and increase by natural “layering”. This happens when a stem lying along the ground sends out roots into the soil from the point where it touches. If you want more plants than those natural “layers”, help the process along by selecting long bendable stems and pinning them down at one or two points with a hair-pin as shown below. Water well to encourage root growth down into the soil at the point of contact. After several weeks, a whole new plant will be forming, and you can sever it from the parent plant after about six weeks, and move it to its new location.

This is an ideal way to increase your herb plants, as it involves very little work or supervision, and does not disturb the parent plant which can still flourish in the same spot with no set-back to its growth.

Suitable herbs for layering are lemon balm, catmint, the scented geraniums, horehound, hyssop, marjoram, the mints, rosemary (slower to root), sage, savory, and all the thymes.

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