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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: aquilegia on June 28, 2004, 12:44:18

Title: herb cuttings - when?
Post by: aquilegia on June 28, 2004, 12:44:18

When is the best time to take cuttings for herbs? Would it be ok to do them now?

Should I leave them outside, in my mini-greenhouse or indoors?

I'm taking cuttings from sage, rosemary and thyme.

Title: Re:herb cuttings - when?
Post by: Jesse on June 28, 2004, 18:03:11

Hi Aqui, don't know if there is a right or wrong time but when I took cuttings I did it about mid June. I simply tore off a bit from the mother plant making sure I had a woody stem and put them in pots of well draining soil and kept them moist. I kept them outside and by winter they were hardy enough to stay outside (I'm talking about rosemary and sage, can't speak for thyme)

Title: Re:herb cuttings - when?
Post by: derbex on June 29, 2004, 09:49:47

I think I did mine a bit later on -maybe a month or 2. Thyme is dead easy -even from the tiniest cutting, Sage I always have problems with, I keep it through the winter and it dies in the spring, basically I don't keep it moist enough.

Jeremy

Title: Re:herb cuttings - when?
Post by: philcooper on July 01, 2004, 09:13:49

I've just had some success with sage (for the first time)

I took the cuttings 3 weeks ago and put half in come GP compost with added vermiculite and others in plain sand (3.5" pot in shaded propogator)

Lavender did very well with the same treatment

Phil

Title: Re:herb cuttings - when?
Post by: aquilegia on July 01, 2004, 09:16:24

Thanks for the tip Phil - I will give that a try.