Another bed

What's cuttings? Ok, we're in June, would that be too late to start a garden bed project?

 

Its never too late, merely a beginning.

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Lol well sed Mr grinch


Im supper excited. Will make list of plants. Any favorites? Where to buy? List list list

Oh, grinch! Your garden! It's sooooo nice!

 

Cuttings are taken from a plant that already exists. It depends on the type of plant but usually you snip a piece off the end of a branch between two and four inches long, strip off the lower leaves, dip the bottom end in rooting powder and put in a small pot of soil until it roots. Some plants root better than others. If you want to try this, take several cuttings as some are likely to fail to root. Some plants will root fairly easily and others could take weeks. Some cutting with softer stems can be rooted in water.

As Mr. Grinch says it's never to late to start digging out a bed.

 

Will experiment with cuttings. would it be too early to dig the bed and have it ready even though i have nothing to bury in it?

 

Don't take cuttings that have flowers attached. The lifecycle and aim of any plant is to reproduce itself, therefore seeds will grow after the flowers have died off and the plant will put all it's energy into growing those seeds. Energy at the cutting stage is needed to produce roots not flowers/seeds.

You can start digging your bed now or any time of year, it doesn't have to be planted up immediately, though you will have to keep the soil weed free.

 

Excellent.

would it be rude to ask a neighbor for cuttings of her plant? Are there rules on behaviour and etiquettes in the gardening world?

 

I think asking your neighbour for a cutting is quite ok!
(if she says 'no' just walk away .... then, return in the dead of night and nip a bit off anyway )

 

Looooool it's a shame im a good girl and could never do that, or put my rubbish (I.e coke bottle) in another person's bin.

next door, along with giving me her pots said I can take the whole rose bush lool

Going in a bit to buy clean soil