"Mark" wrote in message
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"Martin Sykes" wrote:

If you want to start with a pot from the supermarket, it tends to be
lots
of
young plants in a pot so you wouldn't need cuttings. Just carefully
divide
the plants into separate pots and keep ppinching out the tips to get
them
bushy. You'll only have one variety this way though.

Ah, thanks. Just one more question: what exactly is "pinching out"? I'm a
novice gardener..

Go "pinch" with your fingertips and nails, and take out the last sets of
leaves. In this case don't pull off anything bigger than a centimetre.