Friday, November 18, 2011

What are some good tips for growing lavender?

i just have plain soil with a little of that white fluffy stuff mixed in and they're being grown indoors. for some reason they get about two and a half inches high and then start to shrivel up from the roots. i have some now that seem pretty good so far but i really want them to grow.

What are some good tips for growing lavender?
I buy ALL my plants pregrown in a nursery, because I find that cheap comes out expensive. I buy the growing containers, the seeds, the potting soil, I tenderly care for them...Then the second I get them outside, they DIE...Or they don't even sprout to begin with. SO...I've given up on the theory that things grow from seeds. My new theory is that they mysteriously appear on the tables at my local nursery, and it's my job to buy them. I don't know why your lavender keeps dying, but I have some outside that I bought at about 3 inches tall a couple years back, and it's doing wonderfully, in a sunny patch in my rock garden. And I think I bought it for 3.99.
Reply:Plant them outside in full sun and well drained soil. They are not fussy and prefer to be on the dry side. If you do not have a garden to plant them in, try containers. Same thing, full sun, well drained soil.
Reply:Lavender flourishes in the outdoors and it is very easy to kill an indoor plant by overwatering causing root rot. If you continue to grow it in a pot, make sure that there is a drainage hole at the bottom. This will help prevent the root rot.


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