Rosemary Cuttings
I'm so pleased with this little success. I've never had any luck rooting rosemary or lavender before. I pop the cuttings into potting soil, augment with perlite for drainage, water them fastidiously, and then watch them slowly wilt, drop their leaves, and die... So, I felt a new sense of hope a couple months ago when I read about rooting in water instead. I thought, gosh, what an interesting idea. If I put the cuttings in a glass jar, I could actually watch for root growth. What had I got to loose? Well, guess what? It worked! For the rosemary at least. Look! Let me show you how I did it. Step one: I cut sprigs off this year's growth (white and soft rather than brown and woody) from the healthiest sections of my mother plants. Step two: using my sharpest pruning knife, a penknife would work just as well, I trimmed off the leaves running up the stem just leaving a little sprig at the very top. Step three: I trimmed the stem just below the bottom leaf node. The leaf nodes h...