Propagation: Plant Propagation - the Basics, February 2017, 3 by oxdriftgardener

oxdriftgardener wrote:
Nice Kitt. Love the dogwood
Well, we\'re just about ready to gear up for the 2017 garden. With Wendy\'s help I got some much needed repairs to the greenhouse heating system accomplished on the weekend. The stove itself needed some patching as it is starting to rust out and all of the stove piping needed to be replaced. I have to do my first seeding in the basement at the end of this week; Ailsa Craig Spanish Onions, 3 kinds of peppers and an upright red lobelia that would be perennial in your parts of the world but going to try to grow it in mixed pots as an annual here. My over wintered succulents and Coleus cutting stock are taking up ALL the space I am allowed in the basement leaving no room for seeding. So I am going to have to improvise a bit. The succulents on the top shelf of the 3 tier light stand below are going to have to take up residence in the living room window upstairs for just over a week. Then I will fire up the greenhouse on March 11 which is about 2 weeks earlier than last year. This is so that I can get the plants that take up temporary residence in the living room out before we have all 4 of our grandchildren for spring break week. Plants in the living room would not survive with all 4 kids in the house. They are all very good separately but put the 4 of them together and its chaos.
First 2 pictures are for Ju showing patch job on the wood stove. Large patch on back is recycling a pizza pan Wendy was no longer using. 2 small patches on the first picture are using fender washers, machine screws and stove cement.
Last 3 pictures are my over wintered stock. The coleus look way better this year than usual. My sisters always look way better than mine in the spring so I asked her what she fertilized them with and she said \"nothing\" so I tried it and they look way better. They really don\'t need to be beautiful, they just need to have lots of healthy tips for making cuttings and they are fine for that.