What is up everyone?

What is up everyone?

Welcome back.

This is our final episode for now with Darrell Byers, who is the author of the upcoming

book, The New Gardeners Handbook.

Highly recommend you check out the podcast description

and give that book a look.

He is also a Garden instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.

And so over the course of this week, we have been talking about a lot of these

fundamental principles whether it's your first year gardening or you have a couple seasons under your belt

maybe it's good for a refresher course it It's always good to relearn the basics.

But today we're going to be getting a little bit more advanced and we were just talking

Darryl about how much of an epiphany it is when you realize that the plants around you for the most part you can make more of for free as long as you know exactly how to do it.

And so that brings us to vegetative propagation and I'll kind of let you you run free here it's a

really fun topic. Sure sure it really is it becomes pretty exciting when you

realize that you can make more plants from the plants that you're already you know own without

collecting seeds and starting seeds again and really what vegetative propagation is it's something

We also call it a sexual propagation where you're literally taking the growth

tissue from an existing plant, some of that meristomatic tissue that we learn about earlier

on, where basically the cells of the plant divide and you take a piece of that and you make a whole other plant out of it.

You're basically making a clone. So you're making your,'re making your if you have a particular

flower that you love maybe there's like a really pretty lay actress flower that you

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