Steven Bradley teaches pest and disease control at Capel Manor College, North London. For the last seven years he has been resident gardening expert for BBC Radio and is a regular panelist on the Gardening Roadshow, which travels the country answering gardening problems. He also writes a column in the gardening page of The Sun.

Introduction; Getting Started; what is propagation? Why propagate? Types of propagation; Tools and Equipment; basic tool kit, knives, secateurs, containers, propagation and artificial environments; Other Essentials; compost, hormone rooting preparations, watering, hygiene; Seeds; germination and viability, saving seeds, sowing under glass, pricking out, hardening off, sowing outdoors, protecting seeds and seedlings; Division; how to divide, plants with fibrous roots, woody plants and clump-forming shrubs, rhizomatous plants, offsets, runners and plantlets; Cuttings; taking cuttings, rooting cuttings, tip cuttings, stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, root cuttings, grafting; Bulbs, Corms and Tubers; bulbs and corms from seeds, dividing bulbs, scaling bulbs, scoring, scooping and chipping, corms and tubers; Layering; types of layering, simple layering, serpentine layering, air layering, dropping; Troubleshooting; pests, diseases, viruses; Directory of Plants; Calendar; Index; Acknowledgements.