Sowing lavender »Instructions

Seeds mostly from real lavender

Above all, there is sowing in the garden the real lavender of its own accord, provided the conditions are right. You can very often find young plants in cracks between stones - that's where it feels on a stony surface used to lavender best. However, this self-sowing is by no means found in all types of lavender. When you buy lavender seeds, you usually only get what is known as “wild lavender”, which does not mean single-origin lavender. However, the resulting plants look very different, not only in terms of their height and shape, but also in terms of leaf shape and color. Sometimes they even differ Colors of the flowers.

Prepare the seeds before sowing

If you Seeds from self-grown lavender plants want to use, they must be properly developed. That means you should the faded flower stems do not cut off in summer, but only in spring. To increase the germination rate, you can remove the seeds before the

sowing stratify, i.e. store in the refrigerator for one to two weeks. To do this, put the seeds on a little damp sand, which you fill in a sealable freezer bag (or another sealable container). No further preparations are necessary.

Sow lavender

You should only sow lavender outdoors when no more periods of frost are to be expected. This is usually only the case from the end of May / beginning of June. But lavender can also be left on the windowsill or on the windowsill from February / March. are grown in the greenhouse, then the plants grown from them will bloom still in the same year and can also be harvested.

Instructions for sowing

• Fill - as germ-free as possible - Potting soil in pots or a greenhouse.
• Low-nutrient herbal soil is best.
• You can disinfect these beforehand in the microwave.
• Moisten the soil with a spray bottle.
• The seeds are scattered loosely on the substrate and lightly pressed with the help of a board.
• Spread stratified seeds together with the sand on the potting soil - as thinly as possible.
• Lavender is a light source and needs a bright location.
• The plants germinate after one to two weeks, but can also take longer.
• Prick the plants as soon as the first leaflets appear after the cotyledons.

Tips & Tricks

You should have young lavender plants first plant outdoors respectively. Put it in a pot on the balcony when cold temperatures are no longer expected outside - hence at the earliest from the end of May, or even better later. Older lavender is no longer so sensitive.

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