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heathert Posted - May 08 2006 : 03:53:36 AM
Can anyone give me the 101 Basics of starting & keeping a nice patch of lavender? I'm new to the whole gardening thing but am so interested in it.

The Rustic Star Farm
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JennyWren Posted - May 08 2006 : 06:19:05 AM
I always plant my lavender plants next to my porch (it also smells good, when we are coming and going), it is a stone base porch that seems to help it overwinter by protecting it from the wind and seems to give it enough warmth to survive our zone 5 winters.

Don't over water lavender they really hate it. I use some store bought compost material mixed in the soil. When you harvest the flowers, don't cut down more than maybe a third of the way down the stem.

Other than that .. I think that is basically it.

Good luck and have fun!

Carla...

If you treat an individual as what he is, he will stay that way, but if you
treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.
-- Goethe
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