Grow your own plants
By: Alan Titchmarsh
Series: Alan Titchmarsh how to garden
Publisher: BBC; BBC Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781849902229
Subjects: Gardening
Description: Using a variety of simple propagation techniques, learn how to grow your own plants for free. Alan Titchmarsh shows how to sow seed, take leaf and root cuttings, divide shrubs, and how to promote growth in your young plants. He covers all the essentials and provides inspirational ideas for filling your garden with flowers, shrubs, trees and vegetables, all grown from scratch.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Introducing propagation (How plants grow ; Tools and equipment ; The propagationg environment ; Growing mediums ; Care and maintenance ; Focus on plant problems); title: Growing from seed (Sourcing, collecting and storing seed ; Focus on dormancy ; Sowing in pots, trays and modules ; Focus on ferns ; Sowing direct into the ground ; Focus on easy windowsill projects); title: Growing from cuttings (Types of cutting ; Shoot cuttings from perennials ; Focus on succulents ; Shoot cuttings from woody plants ; Leaf cuttings ; Root cuttings); title: Layering, division and grafting (Layering ; Division ; Bulbs ; Grafting); title: A-Z propagation directory (Ornamental plants ; Fruit, vegetables and common herbs).