Vegetative Propagation: Making Plants from Plant Parts

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Did you know you can walk around your neighborhood and make more plants from the plants you see on the walk? Enter the world of vegetative propagation and watch your garden explode. Connect With Daryl Beyers: Daryl Beyers is the author of upcoming book, The New Gardener’s Handbook and garden instructor at New York Botanical Garden. The New Gardener’s Handbook New York Botanical Garden Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up everyone?
0:13.8	What is up everyone?
0:15.2	Welcome back.
0:16.2	This is our final episode for now with Darrell Byers, who is the author of the upcoming
0:20.7	book, The New Gardeners Handbook.
0:23.4	Highly recommend you check out the podcast description
0:25.6	and give that book a look.
0:27.4	He is also a Garden instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.
0:31.2	And so over the course of this week, we have been talking about a lot of these
0:34.4	fundamental principles whether it's your first year gardening or you have a couple seasons under your belt
0:40.0	maybe it's good for a refresher course it It's always good to relearn the basics.
0:43.6	But today we're going to be getting a little bit more advanced and we were just talking
0:48.6	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.
0:59.2	And so that brings us to vegetative propagation and I'll kind of let you you run free here it's a
1:03.6	really fun topic. Sure sure it really is it becomes pretty exciting when you
1:08.8	realize that you can make more plants from the plants that you're already you know own without
1:14.9	collecting seeds and starting seeds again and really what vegetative propagation is it's something
1:20.3	We also call it a sexual propagation where you're literally taking the growth
1:26.2	tissue from an existing plant, some of that meristomatic tissue that we learn about earlier
1:31.9	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.
1:40.0	You're basically making a clone. So you're making your,'re making your if you have a particular
1:45.6	flower that you love maybe there's like a really pretty lay actress flower that you
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