Welcome to the next Q&A of GrowCook Eat Arrange.

So in the month of May, we've been sent some really good questions relevant to exactly this time of year.

And the first one I'm going to hand to Josie, which is about propagating the wonderful

green pom-pom dianthus. So over to you, Josie. Yeah, this is Dianthus Green Trick or Green Wiki's a

slightly larger-headed one, isn't it? Yeah. These, they won't produce a flower, so we use them when they've got this green bobble head,

which is how they stay for weeks.

And it isn't a seed producer, so you obviously can't reproduce it from seed.

And it would need to be propagated from cuttings, but it's not easy, I'm afraid.

Commercially, it's produced through tissue culture.

We've tried here to strike cuttings.

I don't think I've actually got any of them to grow.

So, yeah, unfortunately, it's buying in plugs.

Yeah, I think it is one of those things that seems to be really tricky to propagate from

cuttings and doesn't

form seed. So I'll do the next one. What should I do with spring bulbs now? They're going over

or have gone over. So it basically depends if you want to reuse the pots, which we tend to do here.

So you could use a plastic inner to your pot, so then you can scoop out the inner

and put in another inner with perhaps a hardy annul or a half-hardy annal or a dahliar to replace it.

Or if you haven't used an inner, then just take the bulbs out and plant them straight into the garden

at the same level as they were in the pot

and leave the leaves on and let them die down in their new home and hope for the best

and certainly with hyacinth, narcissus and alliums, they're going to come back next year with

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