A Basic Guide to SAVING SEEDS for Home Gardeners [offsite link]
Do you get tired of buying the same seeds year after year? If so, you need to learn to harvest and save your own seeds. Vermont Organic Seeds produced this excellent website specifically for home gardeners.

Easy Plant Propagation Techniques [offsite link]
This website focuses primarily on propagating trees. The home gardener will find information on successfully propagating their favorite shrubs and trees via grafting and budding. It also has some good illustrations.

How to Propagate Native Plants [offsite link]
Do you enjoy the challenge of growing plants from other lands? If so, take a look at some of Australia´s native plants. Although the site is talking about plants from Australia, the information provided is excellent and could easily be applied to native plants from any nation.

Landscape Propagation [offsite link]
This excellent site provides photographs of various propagating techniques. Spend some time here to learn how to multiply your existing landscape plants.

Micropropagation of Chimeral African Violets [offsite link]
Chimeral African Violets are favorites of collectors. Due to their unusual genetic makeup, they must be propagated vegetatively. This article discusses one way of producting these violets.

Plant Breeding as a Hobby [offsite link]
This is a comprehensive handbook on propagating plants. I suggest downloading it to your computer and reading it with the Acrobat reader. Alternatively, you may view it as a website. The article totals 23 pages.

Plant Propagation [offsite link]
Plant Propagation is the most complete website I´ve seen geared toward the home gardener. This site teaches you the basics of growing from seed, and finishes by discussing some of the new micropropagation techniques. If you want to try your hand at grafting, instructions are here.

Propagating Houseplants [offsite link]
NebGuide to Propagating Houseplants is a very brief introduction to some common methods. The beginner will find this information useful. Line drawings illustrate the article.

Propagating Roses by Air-Layering [offsite link]
Air-layering Roses is the topic of this website. The information can be applied to many other plants. I strongly recommend this article because it uses full color photographs to illustrate each step in the process.

Propagation of Dahlias [offsite link]
This site provides an outstanding introduction to propagating Dahlias. Each technique discussed is accompanied by color photographs. The information may be generalized to any tuberous rooted plant.

Raising cacti and other succulents from seed [offsite link]
Most people would never think of growing their own succulents from seed. This article teaches you what you need to know to succeed with this exciting hobby. It has quality illustrations.

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