New Gardener’s Sand Tray
- So cheap and simple a sand tray for cuttings doesn’t need a photograph. Fill a deep seed tray or box with damp horticultural sand.
- Use your sand tray to hold small cuttings or plant snippets to help them root.
- This method of rooting and growing increases your stock of plants for negligible cost. At that cost you do not need many rooting successes to give you a payback.
- Silver leaved plants, perennials, even petunias can be rooted in a sand tray then grown on or be planted in the garden.
- Use 2″-4″ young new growth cuttings and strip off the bottom leaves then plunge the bottom third in the sand. It will take a few weeks in summer and a few months in cooler weather to get root growth.