Perennial Plug Plants

In recent years plug plants have gained popularity with gardeners and are used extensively in garden designs.

By using plug plants they can add up to a considerable saving in gardening time

What makes a plug plant?

A plug plant can be from cutting propagation or from seed, in place of propagating the plant in a seed tray and pricking it out or in the case of rooted cuttings moving them on, they are normally propagated directly in the plug cell where they stay until either planted out in the garden or potted for planting out later when they have become a little more mature.

The main advantage, apart from the time saved in propagation, is that plants grown as plug plants develop

much quicker producing flowers or in the case of vegetables is ready to harvest sooner.

Video Help choosing plug plants

If you're looking for help choosing and growing your own plug plants then this 30 sec. video will show you some of the beautiful flowers you can grow from plug plants.

Help Growing Plug Plants - tip, advice and help on growing plug plants

People have contacted me asking for assistance in growing their plug plants. The real truth is that if you follow a few simple rules these young plants are really quiet easy to grow.

Now sowing seeds can either be a very easy or an erratic way to produce the plug plants you need for your garden, you either get hampered with damping off and other diseases associated with seed sowing and propagation. Nine time out of ten you will overproduce and pricking out everything just because you have the seedlings available, and this can be very costly in compost and other materials.

On this plug plants blog we are going to investigate some of the assistance which is available with purchasing and growing your plug plants but how to feed them and look out for pests and diseases, we will also point you in the right direction for the resources and where you can obtain them.