The springtime itch to get outside and start planting is here and many gardeners take time in March and April to start vegetable seeds indoors to plant outside in May or June.  In addition to seed ...

If you want access to fresh mint during winter, propagating is an easy way to pot it for growing indoors during cold weather. It’s also a cheap way to gain more plants that you can gift to friends and ...

Houseplants can be propagated by vegetative cutting, layering, division, and micropropagation, to name a few. Perhaps the easiest and most common form used by the home propagator is the vegetative ...

Growing fruit trees from seeds can take many years, and the resulting tree won’t be identical to the parent tree. You could end up with a new hybrid variety that produces smaller fruit that may not ...

Multiple methods for propagating fruit trees? Why not just plant seeds? The reason is that the seeds of any fruit will produce fruiting trees, but the fruit is unlikely to be true-to-type to the ...

Young woman harvests fruit from multiple trees. - Davidf/Getty Images Multiple methods for propagating fruit trees? Why not just plant seeds? The reason is that the seeds of any fruit will produce ...

What's better than homegrown fruit? Whether it's apples, peaches, or pears, the possibilities are endless—and the local flavor and freshness can't be overstated. The best way to get even more of these ...

Going all winter without an herb garden is miserable. Not only are they pretty, fragrant, and fun, they're also useful in the kitchen. Watching your herbs die down in winter and having to buy some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter gardening typically involves keeping your yard tidy and pruning any dormant plants. However, these colder months are ...

Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...

Learning how to propagate plants is an exciting way to share your plants with others. Plants can be propagated by sexual or asexual means. Sexual propagation is starting plants from seed. Multiplying ...

Vegetative reproduction from stems, roots and leaves is common to all plants and results in an identical plant from which the cutting came; it’s a clone. As gardeners, we propagate cuttings for many ...