How to Grow Vegetables from Cuttings

Planting seeds or transplanting seedlings is the common way to grow vegetables in your garden. But there is another option to grow vegetables in your garden especially if you have long summer and autumn. Growing vegetables from cutting is method of plant propagation that you need to take cutting from the best plants in your garden, rooting and transplanted them within a couple of weeks.

Benefit of Growing Vegetables from Cutting

Growing vegetables from cutting is ideal for a barbecue party with the neighbors, to create a handy gift for a summer housewarming or expanding your garden into fall. In addition there are several other advantages if you use growing vegetables from cutting technique as below:

1. You will have a good plant variety which is suitable with your garden environment such as the air condition etc., because you will take cutting from the best plants in your garden which is proven tested.

2. Rooting and growing vegetable from cuttings in the middle of summer gives your garden a new lease on life.

3. Growing vegetables from cuttings are much quicker to produce than plants from seeds. In most cases, you only need 10-14 days to grow a vegetable plant from a bare cutting to a rooted plant ready to go in the ground.

How to Root and Grow Vegetable Cuttings

Growing vegetables from cuttings may be not suitable for all vegetables plants. The best plants that can use this method for propagation are woody plants such as tomato and pepper. You can start in mid-summer for a late autumn crop so you can extend the gardening season.

Follow below steps to grow vegetables from cuttings in your house or in your garden:

1. Choose the best plants in your garden.

2. Cut a healthy stem from the veggies plant about halfway between the top and the soil. Slice the cutting from the vegetable plant right where the branch meets the main stem. You can use a very sharp knife or razor blade but before cutting you need to wipe it first with alcohol to kill any disease organisms that might lurk on the surface.

3. Give or put the end of the cutting in rooting hormone powder.

4. Place the cutting vegetable in a hole pushed into a pot full of regular potting soil.

5. Place the pot in a bright spot or near window in the house.

6. Keep the cutting watered.

7. If everything goes well, your vegetables branches will form roots within a week and will be ready to transplant within 2 weeks.

Good luck!