This is Weed. And this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens. We’re an organic gardening show focusing on ways to continue our green harvest into winter. Right. And one way I like to do that is that old-fashioned method of taking a clipping and rooting it. Sticking it in some water. Sticking it in some water. For example, I like to have basil and mint on my
windowsill throughout the winter. So what I do is before a frost comes, I clip a couple mint sprigs and basil sprigs and I bring them in and put them in the windowsill in water and wait for them to root. Sometimes I just keep on adding water all winter and I’ll have a small supply of mint leaves. In other words, you don’t have to put transplant them. Do you have to put anything else in the water?
Just more water. You use distilled water or just regular tap water? I use regular tap water, but I know people who swear that, you know. You’re better off with distilled water. Distilled water. But I just use regular water. But you don’t use rain water, right? I don’t use rain water for indoors because sometimes my rain water has a bit of an odor to it. Could have some back pain or something. And you want it to be as sterile as possible. You do want your winter clones. For me, it’s usually the
things I like to use in my cooking, the basil, the mint, or rosemary even will root and things like that. Although I can go pick my rosemary most all winter long outdoors. But I love to have a little spice garden going. And so I don’t have to hit the grocery store up for a sprig of mint. For sure. That sounds like a great idea. It’s unfortunately too late for me to do this year, but I’m just
definitely going to try that next year. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, you can probably pull up a root of your mint right from the soil and bring it inside and warm with light. Oh, also, I leave my kitchen lights on all night long, which is probably a waste just to keep those plants on thinking it’s still a longer days. So anyway, if you’re like me and like
to have some green some some spice and you can do this with your flowers. I do it with my geraniums and you do with the Gonyas and other things where I don’t want to drag the whole whole pot in for the winter. So I’ll make four or five cuttings of a geranium and a glass of water and come next spring. I’ll have four or five geraniums to move outside and I won’t have to go to the green house. Nice. Unfortunately, I’m down to all red. I don’t know why I only clip red.
It could be that they revert back to that color. Yeah. Is that being cheap cloning? Okay, so if you’re going to do cloning, start with some clean water. Ideally use a clean tool to make a cutting tool to be sterile. You want to wipe it down with maybe some. The sooner you put that the sooner you put that cutting in the water and get it
in a nice one to seal the better. But you can’t let it dry out. You have to add water. That’s right. You got to add water because it will be sucking up that water as those roots will start to grow. Right. Right. So enjoy. And can you think of any other tip for cloning? That’s it. That’s it. All right. See you. See you folks later. Goodbye from weed and whack. Join us next week and we’ll be back.