Succulents\nare very rewarding and easy to grow. My friend Ginny moved into a house that\nhas loads of succulents. Initially, she wasn\u2019t a fan and silently vowed that\nshe\u2019d replace them all with \u201cproper flowers\u201d. Yet, two years of gardening has\ntaught her to love all the various types. Pinks, reds, purples, greens and each\ntype produces a fabulous flower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They don\u2019t\nask for much water either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\u2019s always\nbreaking bits off and sticking them into the ground in a different spot, to see\nif they change colour. Succulents that are green in the shade suddenly go\nbright red in the sun. Most of them have a very shallow root system and grow\neasily from a little bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But you can\nalso grow them from a single leaf. This is how you do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gently twist\nthe leaf off (take a bottom leaf so you don\u2019t trash the mother plant). You\u2019ll\nsee that sap oozes from the place on the leaf where it was removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Put the leaf on a piece of paper towel on the window sill, or some sunny spot, for a few days until it forms a scab. Wait for that scab, otherwise, the leaf might rot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the leaf\nhas formed the scab place it on top of some soil. Keep the soil moist (not\nsoaking\u2014just moist). After a few weeks, you\u2019ll see that it starts to grow roots.\nIf you leave it, the roots will eventually go down into the soil, but that\nwould also be a good time to plant your baby succulent in a different pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another awesome\nthing about succulents is that they don\u2019t need much soil. So you can grow a few\ndifferent varieties in one pot. This looks super cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They seem to\ngrow well in old tins\u2014we\u2019ll talk about ways to jazz up tins next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scout around\nyour neighbourhood for different succulents and start a little nursery people.\nFeel free to send us pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy\ngrowing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grow your own presents – succulents are easy and rewarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,34,243],"tags":[104,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Christmas-in-July-2.jpg\")
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