A GARDENING GUIDE FOR HOME AND TERRACE

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In addition to purchasing plants, you can use existing plants (your own, or those of fellow gardeners) to grow new plants via propagations, or grow plants from seeds or from bulbs.

Resources:

• Farmers Market
• Florists
• Nurseries
• Plant Stores

New Plants from Old - stem and leaf cuttings. You can split pot-bound plants, put cut stems first in water to root and then in soil (philodendron); put cut leaf stems first in water or wet soil (begonia, jade plant, African violets). See Propagation Fact Sheet for details.

A Miniature Greenhouse - Cuttings in a container covered with plastic will root and develop into plants for home and terrace.

Bulbs - Tuck them into soil in the Fall for Spring blooms, in Spring for Summer flowers. Early bloomers come in many varieties and supply cutflowers for decorative vases.

Homemade - A new life for Avocado, Onions, Potatoes.

Seeds - Start from scratch: Vines, shrubs, flowers, vegetables and heirloom plants. Growing from seed takes time and space; but it can be satisfying to see your start-from-scratch garden grow. Sometimes the only way to own a rare plant is to acquire the seed. Moisten seeds, plant in healthy soil a few inches deep. Thin out first sprouts after leaves appear. Repot in small containers when several leaves have appeared.

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