Growing lavender from plug plants
Grow lavender from plugs to make a low hedge, edge a border or plant in any sunny spot. They’ll add colour and scent, as well as attracting bees and other pollinators.
Plugs are a great way of bypassing the fiddly propagation stage, and the young plants will be ready for planting out later this year. You can help the environment too by reusing old module trays and pots to grow them on in. It’s easy to mix your own potting compost using loam-based John Innes No. 2, some peat-free potting compost and horticultural grit in equal volumes.
It’s important to get the plugs into the next stage of pots or trays as soon as they arrive, then once you’ve watered them in, put them somewhere bright and sheltered from summer rains. A coldframe or greenhouse bench is best. Water sparingly – only when the compost drys out – or the young roots will rot.
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