Growing of Lavender..................
The cultivation of lavender
Website: Lavender needs to prevent a sunny, well drained location fungal disease.
Propagation: Sow fresh seeds in late summer and autumn or buy pots of rooted cuttings. Excerpts from new, strong growth in the summer or fall or from seed sown indoors propagated in trays. Once rooted, plant them in a well-drained, poor soil about 1 foot apart. Foliage turns yellow in poorly drained soil.
Growing: Thin or transplant plants to 18 inches - 2 feet apart, or 12 inches apart for hedges. Depending on the variety (of which there are many) Lavender grows 10 inches to 3 feet. Select the type that best suits the space you are planting for hedges to choose the dwarf variety. Prune the shrub in the fall after flowering or in early spring, but not cut back into the old wood. You do eventually become lanky, so once you replant every 5 years.
Harvesting: Collect the flower stalk as flowers open. Pick leaves anytime.
Culinary uses: Fresh lavender flowers can be used to flavor syrup for jellies. Mix 6 flower heads in each pint of apple jelly syrup. Remove the lavender before bottling. It is also used to flavor fruit salads, milk and cream for desert. Candied flowers to decorate cakes and puddings. Use lavender instead of rosemary when cooking chicken, aromatic vinegar, and make fragrant stews. As a side effect of language use lavender is wonderful in potpourri.
Website: Lavender needs to prevent a sunny, well drained location fungal disease.
Propagation: Sow fresh seeds in late summer and autumn or buy pots of rooted cuttings. Excerpts from new, strong growth in the summer or fall or from seed sown indoors propagated in trays. Once rooted, plant them in a well-drained, poor soil about 1 foot apart. Foliage turns yellow in poorly drained soil.
Growing: Thin or transplant plants to 18 inches - 2 feet apart, or 12 inches apart for hedges. Depending on the variety (of which there are many) Lavender grows 10 inches to 3 feet. Select the type that best suits the space you are planting for hedges to choose the dwarf variety. Prune the shrub in the fall after flowering or in early spring, but not cut back into the old wood. You do eventually become lanky, so once you replant every 5 years.
Harvesting: Collect the flower stalk as flowers open. Pick leaves anytime.
Culinary uses: Fresh lavender flowers can be used to flavor syrup for jellies. Mix 6 flower heads in each pint of apple jelly syrup. Remove the lavender before bottling. It is also used to flavor fruit salads, milk and cream for desert. Candied flowers to decorate cakes and puddings. Use lavender instead of rosemary when cooking chicken, aromatic vinegar, and make fragrant stews. As a side effect of language use lavender is wonderful in potpourri.
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