Layering Method

Layers are like cuttings, except that you do not cut off the branch from the mother plant until the layer has rooted. You have to make sure that the tip of the branch is pressed against damp soil until roots form. Because it can still draw water and food from the plant, the branch does not wilt.

Plants that are easy to root in this way are strawberry geranium, Creeping Jenny (a weed in your back yard), English Ivy, Spider Plant and Winter Creeper. Creeping Jenny and Winter Creeper are plants that grow out of doors, so you will have to make layers where they grow.

What to do:
Fill a pot with soil mix; wet it twice. Lay a branch of the plant across the pot. Pin it down with a hairpin or a piece of bent wire. Cover the branch and pot as well as you can with thin plastic. In three or four weeks, roots will have formed and the layer can be cut away from the mother plant.

	Jan 5 06 Off- shoots planted	Jan 15 06 Off- shoots have grown.	Jan 15 06 Off- shoots separated from parent.	Jan 15 06 New off-shoots planted.
	Feb 7 06 Second set of off-shoots separated