If you start hanging round the garden centres or listening to gardeners, you’re bound to hear the terms ‘potting up’ or ‘potting on’, but what the heck are they talking about?

Potting up, also called potting off, just means putting a seedling or cutting into its first pot.  Aww, bless

Potting on means moving a plant from it’s old plant pot, which it has outgrown, into a new, larger one.

The main difference is that one is just a baby that needs lots of attention, whereas the other is an older, more established plant withroots in a pot-shaped rootball and so changing its home is not such a big traumatic experience for it.

The term ‘potting’, which you are probably more familiar with, can be used to describe either term.