8 ways to take healthy cuttings from your crop

Once your plants are spent, give them a tidy and create more plants too

Pot up little offshoots and you’ll have a whole new bed of plants in no time

Even a small country garden can contain an ‘orchard’ of trees and shrubs, so you can fill your fruit bowl with home-grown apples, pears, plums and more

Save seeds from the heads of grasses that may not survive the winter. Ornamental grasses such as pennisetum are marginally tender and particularly susceptible to frost damage when grown in heavy soil.

Take cuttings of your favourite salvias to make new plants for next year, in case the parent plants don’t survive the winter. Salvia cuttings are easy to root and if kept in a greenhouse or cold frame

With hosepipe bans and the heat, I’ve got clever with watering and planting