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Old 26-08-2007, 01:23 PM
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Default Geranium Cuttings for Dummies

Help!

I've never sucessfully taken cuttings before and plan to this year to take lots so I can fill my garden for free

Anyhow, I want to take cuttings of my Fireworks Geraniums and am now determined for it to work as I've promised some to a friend who recently lost her husband and she said he loved variagated leaf geraniums (which mine are)

So I was hoping for a Laymans terms way of propogating them please. Along the lines of the Lavender advice lol (i.e. stuff in ground, stamp down earth)

I've tried cuttings before with bags over the pots and they go mouldy etc so I'm hoping I can avoid that technique

Also, how much of the plant can I use before I risk killing it? My garden is fairly sheltered so am hoping they'll over winter for next year but don't want to kill them by taking to much of the plants for cuttings this year (I have 2 of the variagated ones so not too many to use)

Ta in advance
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