Fact Sheet: Propagating Herbs Presenter: Angus Stewart,
24/09/2011 Series 22 Episode 33 Herbs are some of the easiest
and durable plants to grow and there's no reason why gardeners
can't propagate their own. Clumping and running herbs include
all the mints, such as chocolate mint, oregano, chives and
thyme. - Lift the plant out of the garden with a spade - Take a
little clump off the edge of the parent plant - Pot it up. A
plant in a 15 cm pot should give you up to 20 new plants Angus
pots up running herbs because many of them can be quite
invasive. A great tip is to put it into a pot on a hard surface
- like pavers or concrete, because it can even escape through
the drainage holes into the garden if you let it. Angus prefers
to propagate woody perennial herbs such as lavender, lemon
verbena and lemon myrtle from stem cuttings and it's a pretty
straight forward process. He has been experimenting with long
stem cuttings and has found that by having a much longer cutting
(approx 15cm), you get a far more extens