How organised are you Lilylouise. I dont have heating in my greenhouse but i hoping to try and keep my jalapeno chillies so have bought some fleece jackets for them.
Lilylouise - your garden is an inspiration and I marvel at your dedication! I would like to ask a question about how you pot up your cuttings. I always put cuttings around the edge of pots and this works quite well. I notice, though, that you use modular trays and put the cuttings into the middle of each module. Is this a more reliable method?
LL, you are depressing me ! I have tried for years, to get a cutting to 'take', and all I get is a tray or pot full of potential compost twigs. I try store bought cutting stuff, make up my own, adding grit, agricultural sand, dipping into rooting compounds, all the miracle growing compounds, and the now inevitable result is, compost !
I think that there are some who are blessed with green hands. I am cursed with 'for cabbages only' hands ! Still, it's fun to dig, for digging sake.
LL you are an inspiration to us all. Mind you I couldn't do as many as you as my garden isn't big enough. By the look of what you've done your greenhouses are bigger than my entire garden. I have however got one of those small plastic greenhouse things this year and will see how I get on with that.I hope to be able to do some geraniums and fuchsias. There was someone on here though who said that they wrapped geraniums- the pelargonium type in newspaper to overwinter them and I would quite like to try this.
Lilylouise - your garden is an inspiration and I marvel at your dedication! I would like to ask a question about how you pot up your cuttings. I always put cuttings around the edge of pots and this works quite well. I notice, though, that you use modular trays and put the cuttings into the middle of each module. Is this a more reliable method?
Hello boozysuzy I use allsorts to put my cuttings in - I am very greedy so that is why I use tryas and modules - I do use pots the same way you do ,though I always take more cuttings than I need so it doesn't matter if some fail. This year i am experimenting with cuttings in neat Perlite - someone told me about this method and I tried a few cuttings of Laurentia last year and they were very successful
Today I have taken cuttings of Felicia, Sanvitalia, Plectranthus,Cobaeas, more Verbenas,more trailing Geraniums,more African Blue basil and more New Guinea Impatiens
I am a very keen and quite successful cuttings-taker, but don't ever keep cuttings alive in Perlite alone - wonder what I am doing wrong? The perlite doesn't seem to 'set' and the cuttings just fall over and die. What I am intrigued with LL, is how close you keep your trays one above the other in the greenhouse? I'm always worried they don't get enough light so only stack 2 layers deep - thus never enough room in the greenhouse!
Hello Ingrid I am just experimenting with Perlite - last year may have been a fluke
My trays aren't stacked - the photos may give this impression . I have shelves on 2 sides of the greenhouse and the cutting trays go here and on the staging
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How organised are you Lilylouise. I dont have heating in my greenhouse but i hoping to try and keep my jalapeno chillies so have bought some fleece jackets for them.
Lilylouise - your garden is an inspiration and I marvel at your dedication! I would like to ask a question about how you pot up your cuttings. I always put cuttings around the edge of pots and this works quite well. I notice, though, that you use modular trays and put the cuttings into the middle of each module. Is this a more reliable method?
LL, you are depressing me ! I have tried for years, to get a cutting to 'take', and all I get is a tray or pot full of potential compost twigs. I try store bought cutting stuff, make up my own, adding grit, agricultural sand, dipping into rooting compounds, all the miracle growing compounds, and the now inevitable result is, compost !
I think that there are some who are blessed with green hands. I am cursed with 'for cabbages only' hands ! Still, it's fun to dig, for digging sake.
LL you are an inspiration to us all. Mind you I couldn't do as many as you as my garden isn't big enough. By the look of what you've done your greenhouses are bigger than my entire garden. I have however got one of those small plastic greenhouse things this year and will see how I get on with that.I hope to be able to do some geraniums and fuchsias. There was someone on here though who said that they wrapped geraniums- the pelargonium type in newspaper to overwinter them and I would quite like to try this.
Hello boozysuzy
Today I have taken cuttings of Felicia, Sanvitalia, Plectranthus,Cobaeas, more Verbenas,more trailing Geraniums,more African Blue basil and more New Guinea Impatiens
Pam LL x
Laurentia and Cobaea cuttings in just Perlite
Verbena - Pink
Plectranthus
Sanvitalia
Felicia
Peat Ballan - I just use multipurpose compost with some vermiculite added - I rarely use rooting stuff
Thankyou Bev
I am not convinced that a plastic greenhouse is warm enough - could you put some cuttings on a windowsill in the house 
Pam LL x
Gardeningfanatic - my Verbena rigidas have rooted
Pam LL x
I take cuttings of osteospurmum each year but as years go by I get more foliage and fewer flowers. any ideas?
I am a very keen and quite successful cuttings-taker, but don't ever keep cuttings alive in Perlite alone - wonder what I am doing wrong? The perlite doesn't seem to 'set' and the cuttings just fall over and die. What I am intrigued with LL, is how close you keep your trays one above the other in the greenhouse? I'm always worried they don't get enough light so only stack 2 layers deep - thus never enough room in the greenhouse!
Hello Ingrid
I am just experimenting with Perlite - last year may have been a fluke
My trays aren't stacked - the photos may give this impression . I have shelves on 2 sides of the greenhouse and the cutting trays go here and on the staging
Pam LL x