How to grow lavender

The fragrance and the color of Lavender is known to almost anyone. It is used in perfumery and cosmetology, in the decor of the premises and the manufacture of beautiful souvenirs. Recently, the lavender began to use both in cooking, adding it to various desserts. If you live in the southern regions where there is no harsh winters, then try to grow this beautiful plant on the flower bed. You can not only use the lavender, as described above, but also decorate your household plot.

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Methods of growing lavender

Growing lavender is not very simple. But having even minimal horticultural experience, anyone can grow it.

The first and easiest method is the purchase of a young leavander whip and transplanting it from pot to the ground. These seedlings are sold only with a closed root system. You can find these young plants in garden nurseries, online stores or even on the market, where they sell experienced flowerflowers.
The second method is quite simple - this is the separation of an adult large bush for several deteen, from which new bushes will then grow.
The third method consists in growing lavender from escape. You can cut it with an adult bush and just put in the ground. This method is more complicated, because cut off shoots do not always take root.
The cultivation of lavender from seeds is the most difficult fourth method, but if you are not afraid of difficulties, then try it. The lavender grown in this way very well transfers the transplant to open soil and with proper care will bloom in your second year.

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Choosing a place for landing lavender

Before you buy or grow a lavender yourself, find a place suitable for it.

It will be good to grow well and abundantly blooming this fragrant plant will be only in a strong sun. If you have hot places on the site, where other flowers suffer from heat, then take them to lavender. In areas where the sun happens, but not all day, additionally decompose the decorative stones. They will heat up from the sun, and then give it warm to the lavender bushes. Stones spread so that you can dig up the landing pits between them.
Lavender loves poor stony or clay soil. On the oily black earth, it will grow badly and can even die. If you have a solid black soil on the site, then for lavender prepare places with a special excavation mixture. Drop the holes in size 1 per 1 m. Fill them with duck up, small rubble, sand and dry clay. Mix their equal parts of these components. If there is no possibility to make such land, then on the bottom of the pits with the usual soil to lay a thick drainage from the broken red brick. Such large pits for young plants are needed so that in the appropriate ground of the large volume they began to quickly increase the powerful root system, and then the upper green mass.
Low wetlands will not be suitable for landing lavender. Permanent humidity is destructive. But the dryness of the Earth is the plant tolerates perfectly. Nevertheless, watering this plant is required, like any other - have it in mind and choose a place where water can be reduced or touched.

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Lavender from pots

Replant Lavender from pot to open ground can be in spring or autumn. Preferred to do it in May month.

Prepare a pit for the plant.
During the day before disembarking, the lavender is spanging it in a pot so that the Earth becomes wet.
In the evening, get the plant from the pot together with the earthen room. Try to stay as much.
Install the plant in the pit in such a way that its root neck is 1-1.5 cm below the ground level.
Put the pit with soil. Failure it.
Pour the bush with a small amount of water - no more than 3 liters.
If, as a result of irrigation, the land in the hole slightly lowered, then spread another ordinary soil.
Transplanted from the pots of Lavender water once every five to seven days. The first week is slightly sampled by its white underfloor material or shading grid.

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Lavender from a divided adult bush

This method is better to use when old bushes have already lost their decorativeness.

In October of the month, the old bush fully cut to a height of 8-10 cm. Tarling from the ground, the shoots are slightly occurring the ordinary earth.
In the spring, after the snow saving and heating the soil, pumped off the cropped bushes of fresh land. Pour it with a hormster, but so that old twigs are visible.
In the summer, Lavender water at least once a week. Until autumn, new green shoots will grow from the land of the Earth.
In the middle or end of September, dig a rejuvenated bush and with the help of small forks divide it to the decene. Do not use a knife for this because it hurts roots.
Dellets pick up in advance prepared pits. Before the onset of cold weather, spend 3-4 medium irrigation.

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Lavender from Chershkov

This method you can use both in summer and autumn.

Summer shine

In June or July, make a 10-15 cm long lavender bushes on adult bushes.
Choose the cutters that do not have flowers.
Put in the open ground at a distance of 10 cm from each other and blocking them by 5-7 cm.
During the day, keep the pets under the white underfloor material. At night, remove it.
Watering produce warm water as the soil drying.
When you see that the cutters got along (they will start growing new leaflets), remove the shelter at all.
For the winter, young plants sort out cut-off small branches with any bushes. Such a light shelter will not give plants to frozen and, at the same time, will provide them with access to them.
Spring rooted cutters transfer to permanent places.

Autumn silent

In September, cut twenty centimeter cuttings from lavender. Choose those that are not bloody this year.
Cuttings put in pots with light nutritional land, drowning them exactly half. In one wide pot can put up to four plants.
Pots wrap for a couple of weeks with polyethylene packages or cover with five-liter plastic bottles cropped up to half.
First, water the cutters once a week, and in the winter - once every two weeks.
Keep pots on a light window. If the battery is very hot under it, then cover it with a towel.
In May month, rooted with sweets, transfer to the place allotted in the garden.

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Lavender from seeds

Seeds can buy in a flower shop or collect them personally from already twisted bushes. Seed collection Do dry sunny weather and keep them until December to the month in a dryly shaded place.

In mid-December, place purchased or collected seeds in the refrigerator. From the bags, do not remove them and put the packaging into the container for vegetables or on the side shelf. Seeds on costs (cold processing) Keep up to mid-February. If for any reason you forgot to put a lavender in the refrigerator, then in the middle of February it seeds put on one day in the freezer.
In February, prepare a small container, in the bottom of which be sure to make holes with a seboard or any other sharp object. Capacity Fill in very light soil for growing vegetables seedlings. If you do it yourself, then add one part of the peat and one part of the sand to one part of the garden land. Earth in a container in height pour no more than five centimeters.
In the prepared ground, make a groove in a depth of 2-3 mm. Slightly swing their water.
Lavender seeds get out of the refrigerator and mix them with a pinch of dry sand. This mixture evenly crumble into the grooves. Sand in this case is needed in order for the seeds to lay in the soil more evenly.
Seeds in the grooves sprinkle a very thin layer of soil. It should be no more than 1-2 mm. If the seeds are too shredded, then they may not have enough strength to break out. Earth extinct from a small water sprayer.
Cover the container with a piece of polyethylene film and put it on the lightest window.
Water the land once every three days using the sprayer. After each watering, do not forget to cover the tank with the film.
After 7-14 days, if the lavender you will stand on the sunny window, you will see her first shoots. It is booming this plant is not very friendly - sometimes for the germination of all seeds may be required for a whole month. As soon as the first shoots appear in the container, then in the hottest clock, sample it from the scorching sun.
When the whole lavender goes out, remove the polyethylene film from it. Do not remove it from the southern window, but make sure that the sun does not burn young plants.
Water the lavender as the earth dries, but do not shove much. This plant is easier to carry a small drought than too wet soil.
When the lavender grows up 4-6 real leaves and it will begin to close, then sip it into the glasses or a pot capacity of no more than 250 ml. Earth in the cups put the same as prepared for the extension of seeds.
When picking up young plants, you can pinch a central root, which at the plant at this time is very long. If you doubt this procedure, then very carefully put the root in the groove in the cup. Lavender dive into the cups with the ground, blocking it until the very first real leaflet.
Grow young seedlings in cups until mid-May. Keep them on a light window and water as needed. At the hottest time of the day, a little shadow lavender, but not too much. At this time she will get used to the sun.
From the beginning of May, take a lavender from the room, starting with a couple of hours a day and gradually increasing her stay outdoors.
In mid-May, transfer bushes for permanent places. At this time, their magnitude will be approximately 5-8 cm, but do not satisfy them too close to each other. Lavender brightens very much, so the places for each plant are removing at least 50 sq.m.

Lavender, which you have already landed in the ground, does not require feeding. This plant is very hardy and unpretentious, everything he needs, it will take from the ground. So that Lavender had a beautiful view and abundantly bloom, expose it with a mandatory pruning.