Things You'll Need:
- Rooting hormone
- Spade
- Pots
- Potting mix
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Step 1
Take semi-ripe cuttings from rosemary, sage, thyme and lavender in mid-summer. Remove a 4-inch plant tip with some soft and woody growth. Remove ¾ of the leaves. Dip the cutting in rooting hormone and pot up.
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Step 2
Divide your chives, tarragon and mint in late fall or early spring. Dig up the entire plant and chop the clump into several sections with your spade. The replanted sections can look scraggly at first, but perk up with a few weeks of regular watering.
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Step 3
Use the runners of spreading herbs such as mint and thyme. Examine the runners of these plants. You can see roots forming at every node along the shoots. Cut along as many of these nodes as you wish in the spring and plant each shoot in the soil.
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Step 4
Gather the seeds of fennel and chives at the end of the growing season. Examine the ripe flowers for seeds. Shake seed heads into a handkerchief. Sow seeds directly in the ground in the spring.
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Step 5
Make root cuttings of comfrey and sweet cicely in early winter. Dig the entire plant and cut several white roots the size of a string. Plant the cuttings in a tray of potting mix and keep moist until shoots emerge.
