Tips for sowing

Ensure sufficient brightness

Usually will Lavender over cuttings increased, but you can also start the flowering plants yourself from February prefer from seeds. The commercially available lavender seeds mostly come from Real lavender and is seldom pure. This means that the lavender plants grown from the seeds can look very different. At the Sowing the lavender you have to be careful not to cover the fine seeds with soil, or only to cover them very thinly. Lavender is a light germinator and therefore needs brightness for the granules to start germinating. For this reason, you need one for the planter or nursery pot as bright a location as possible. However, since February is usually too dark for the sun-drenched Mediterranean plants, a special Plant lamp(€ 65.50 at Amazon *) ensure more brightness.

Sow lavender properly

So that you are successful in sowing the lavender, we have put together the following tips for you:

• If possible, prefer lavender towards the end of winter / spring.
• Otherwise it can happen that the plants start blooming too late and cannot mature before winter.
• Take a nursery pot, a planting bowl or an indoor greenhouse.
• Fill in there low-nutrient Potting soil. Herbal soil usually works very well too.
• Lightly press the earth.
• Moisten the substrate with water from a spray bottle, but it must not be wet.
• Sow the fine seeds on the ground.
• Press it lightly against the damp earth.
• Put the potty in a bright and warm place.
• If necessary, install another Plant lamp.
• The seedlings will be pricked and repottedas soon as the first delicate leaflets have grown next to the two cotyledons.

Tips & Tricks

In contrast to many other seeds, lavender does not need a greenhouse climate to germinate, so it is best not to put bags or plastic wrap over the pot. Lavender germinates best at temperatures around 15 ° C.

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