Over the years, I have gotten more and more into gardening. There are several great garden design shows I used to and still watch which I gain most of my inspiration from. Ranging from the Australian show Great Home Ideas to more personal gardens like Linda Vater's channel on YouTube, or the British Escape to the Country They each touch on a different aspect of gardening, the tips and tricks they include, guides on how to successfully plant, replant, DIY garden plant boxes, décor, and many more. The plants and herbs I like most I have learned to propagate over the years both from experience and tips I have heard over on some of the shows I mentioned.
We decided to build a smaller planting station out in the garden where I can hang up sturdy boxes filled with small plant pots. Since the hanging planters are in a column downwards it is very easy to water each plant at once.
If you want to create an easy and quick planter yourself, you only need a rectangular structure with rods across where you can hang planter boxes and you instantly have yourself a DIY mini planter garden, even if you don't have a garden or only have a small space but you still want to create a mini garden of herbs or even vegetables. If you want to plant vegetables for the spring season, you might want to increase the depth and style of your plant pots to some deeper and wider ones.
What I have learned from Linda Vater and Great Home Ideas is that no matter the amount of available space you have, any space can fit some kind of garden. If you really don't have much of a garden or much space, think of maybe putting your herb collection in the window of your kitchen like Great Home Ideas have done in one of their videos.
On propagating plants
1. The most effective and easy way of propagating plants is to find a part of the plant that is most green and flexible to the point you can easily snap the top off. Once you arrive home, simply either put it in a clear glass full of water and leave it there for a week or two until you see small roots growing at the bottom.
2. Another option is to directly put the small cutting into a plant pot of soil and keep watering it daily or as frequently as possible. While it isn't best to keep full-grown plants in wet soil for a longer time, these small cuttings need both sunshine and water to produce growth by using these energies. If you think of it, method #1 has the plant cutting directly in the water constantly, and it can't really damage the plant that much. Sometimes not every cutting makes it, but if you make sure to get at least 5-6 small cuttings, which really isn't a lot, 1-2 will most likely make it, as I have experienced. The 2 methods are basically the same as they both use the Sun and the water as the main sources of energy and food.
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