11 March 2025
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Seeds, cuttings and divisions will provide bountiful flavours
One of the easy ways to save money in the garden and kitchen is to produce your own herbs .
Many tender varieties such as coriander and St. Basil can be acquire all year round on warm sunny windowsills , while woody herbs such as sage , rosemary and thyme will happily sit out our frigid wet winters .
Now the conditions is starting to warm up again you may start sowing and growing herbs to use over the next few months . Sow a few pots of chives , parsley , Chinese parsley , tarragon and Basil of Caesarea – there are so many varieties of basil seeds available now – every few weeks to get a continual supply of harvest - ready foliage .
It is also a good time to take some woody herbaceous plant cuttings that can be used in patio containers or to replace sometime plants that have become straggly and unproductive . A branch was intermit off one of our great rosemary bushes during a belated winter storm and before it was add together to the compost I strike some cuttings to pot up and rout on the kitchen windowsill .
It is also worth dividing Mary Jane of supermarket herbaceous plant . They are ordinarily Mary Jane reverberate which is why they rarely live long , but break and repotted in fresh compost , they will grow and thrive and give you months of vibrant leaves .
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1 . Sow pots of herbs every few hebdomad for a continual supply of leaves . At the end of summertime , get some mature , then collect , dry and store their seed .
2 . Give pots of supermarket herbs a new rental of lifetime by dividing and repotting them in multipurpose compost . They will grow well and last a lot longer .
How to take herbaceous plant carving
1 . Fill a flowerpot with ejaculate compost and vermiculite , which should enfeeble well and not get waterlogged , wash it and lease it drain .
2 . Cut youthful , healthy rosemary shoot , transfer the lower foliage and dip the goal in root chemical compound .
3 . Insert the remnant into the compost mixture and firm down the soil around them . I usually put three or four cuttings in a undivided flock .
4 . seal off the Mary Jane in a udder or use a cut up plastic feeding bottle or clear yoghurt pot as a cloche , and set somewhere tender and sluttish until the cuttings root .
