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The taste of fresh asparagusin May is worth waiting for. A perennial crop, established asparagus plants will provide an annual crop of tasty spears for up to 20 years.Choose the spot you will grow your asparagus carefully. Asparagus needs lots of space to grow and thrives in shel...

, as this can be a fiddly job. Then sprinkle a thin, even layer of fine compost over the seeds, ensuring they're not disturbed.Cover each pot with clingfilm - turning them into mini-propagators, which keeps the compost damp and aids germination.Label the pots

unwanted boxes.If you need more space, hang two or three boxes together.Advice on propagating plantsCarol Klein's video guide to taking basal cuttingsMaking a cloche for seedsSowing seeds indoorsTaking summer cuttingsView a variety of conservatory climbers

. Then sprinkle a thin, even layer of fine compost over the seeds, ensuring they're not disturbed.Cover each pot with clingfilm - creating a mini-propagator, which keeps the compost damp and aids germination.Label the pots and place them on a window sill in plenty

plants that'll go in to several containers...and then could end up as full-sized gorgeous plants in my garden...all for just over £1.00 each. Crazily good value; I just hope whoever propagated them got a decent cut. But how could they have at that price

on the surface of the compost and cover with perlite, the white granular material that can be purchased at most garden centres. Then put the seed tray or module tray in a propagator or on a heated mat at 16°C. The seeds will germinate in about 20 days, depending

-looking rhizomes that can be planted up in February or March in a heated propagator, planting several in one pot to create a bushier display. Later in the year you may find young plants for sale, possibly flowering ones.When I edited a magazine called 'Greenhouse

the oddly named Fluffius Muppetus.Typing on the Void documents everyday life as a gardener (sorry, head propagator) at Lytes Cary, a National Trust property in Somerset.The Inelegant Gardener mixes stories about her garden with fascinating stuff about

So many shrubs are popular because they're easy to propagate and grow by the nurseries, cheap to buy, reliable performers, and grow in many types of soil and situation. But sometimes you don't want your garden to look like everyone else's, and would

Who said gardening wasn't easy? Okay, maybe some parts aren't that simple - grafting, propagation, weeding on cliffs, getting rid of slugs and innumerable other things but some aspects of gardens are unbelievably straightforward.Look at this picture