I learned something interesting a few months ago from one of my co-workers. She also has only a balcony (I like to refer to it as my half a yard) to garden on, but she has a great green thumb.
One day as we were discussing our gardens she told me that if you cut a piece of a plant off and put it in water it will soon start to grow new roots.
I thought this was pretty cool, and I wanted to try it.
A few weeks ago I was checking on my bean plants which are planted in a container on my balcony. One of them seemed slumped over from a particularly windy night. I tried to pull the plant back into an upright position. The plant snapped right off near the bottom of the stalk. I really did not think that I had pulled it that hard!
So I remembered what my co-worker had told me, and I decided to give it a try. I put the bean plant in a glass of water. After a few days the plant started to slump over a little bit. I was getting worried that this was not going to work. However, a few days after that the plant had little roots growing out from the bottom, and the rest of the plant had perked back up!
I left it about a week more so that the roots could grow a little bit longer...
And then I replanted it in the container that it had originally come from.
- Laura
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