How To Grow Insane Amounts of Lavender Like A Pro

Have you any tips for lavender in a Pot? Does the Pot needs to be more deep or wide? I got the problem that my lavender dies cause of to much or to less water. So the Pot has to really big i guess.

Thank you for this! I have many relatives who have tried and failed lavender. I want to plant some myself, but have been too intimidated to do so. This growing guide has given me the confidence to try it.

I loved the dandelion bit 😁❤️

Any chance of rooting some of those cuttings

Thats not huge or anything special.

I grow lavender in pots because my winters are so cold the plants have to be protected. In pots they seem to need a lot of water, otherwise the whole plant becomes cripsy.

So you don't cover or mulch it for winter , I was afraid our Hardy Winters in KY would kill it so I keep it in a pot and bring it in ,

Can you grow lavender in a container?

I had 4 beautiful lavender plants about 3 years old all were doing fabulous and right about to bloom. We had new windows and siding put on on our house and the workers stomped all over my plants even though I had blocked them off with a temporary fence. 3 are now dead one is recovering slowly, I am sooooooo pissed!! 😫

Great video as always. I love growing lavender and wondered why I never had any luck with flowers after the first yr.. now I know lol. Thank you so much!

I live in the Philippines and I thought it's impossible to grow lavender here but I was able to grow five lavender plants from cuttings. None of them flowered and is flowering even possible in our tropical humid hot climate?

Do you use hardware cloth or wire on the bottom of your boxes? I'm wanting to build another one just for things that can grow into fall but I don't want to spend as much. How deep does it have to be?

"Oh there's weed seeds in the garden" 😂

I bought and planted 30 lavanders and then we proceed to have 3weeks non stop rain. Only 4 survived. Out of 30!

Do deer eat on the lavender? We have an abundance of deer where we live. Having a vegetable garden is very difficult Here.,

Great Video! Thanks for the info! 😊

Where are you located?

My 2nd year with my English lavender plants and I was able to harvest and dehydrate so many blooms! My plan is to infuse raw, unrefined honey with it for tea in winter.

Never fertilized my lavender. No till living soil grown is not needed here in zone 10b. Water in once every 2 weeks. It’s 100x larger than this plant he showed.

Thank you.

I live in San Diego, CA. How often do I need to water lavender? Thank you very much!

In the hot southwest, where temps are close to 100° everyday and the wind blows hard, you absolutely have to water morning & night to get a new plant established.

Needed this thank you!

I love this guide, but...

After trying to keep lavender dry-ish for the last 5 years and seeing lavender after lavender die, the last two years, I have a nice lavender growing in shade w/ regular water. This is the high desert of CA.

I used to grow on the other side of the mountains in the coastal plains, and yep, giant lavender bushes loved by the birds and all I did was trim it. It actually got some amount of regular water but I had them in good drainage.

It took me quite a long time to recognize that the sun up here is lethal. Even my trees enjoy some shade. I have killed so many drought tolerant plants out here, I call myself a garden killer, even though my garden is actually nice and green, unlike my neighbors' weeds, rocks and sand.

Once I started w/ shade, it took me a few years to realize I need to shade pretty much my entire garden if I want to see nice, mostly non-stressed plants during summer. You should see the variety of shade cloths, old t-shirts, old palm fronds, etc shading the garden. We built a few shade structures and I have a few gazebos, but I can see I will need to top the entire garden, at least in summer.

I am happy to finally have a nice lavender in the mostly shady spot. It is in its 2nd year and I will be trying to grow more from seed. Now, for culinary sage, which has been constantly dying...but probably same thing for me: it just needed shade.

I never knew lavender did not like water!! Well that explains why I have always killed my lavender plants!! Thank you for the great advice!

Great video! I always knew lavender liked it dry but not that dry. Also interesting they prefer fertile soil

Beautiful garden

Super Thrive 4 0z bottle is the best

Why do you only prune 1/3rd of the plant and leave 2/3’rds of the plant if 2/3’rds is old and can’t grow new flowers? Shouldn’t the entire plant be pruned?

Thanks Luke . It’s always good to learn something. I’ve been gardening for 65 years (mostly in Mi ,now Ga)& can still learn something from you .The lavender tips were very beneficial.‼️

Excellent advice! Thank you!

Total fan of yours. Thanks for everything. Curious, are you into rock hounding as well? Maybe you know Rob of Michigan rocks! You two are my favorites.

Mine died 😢

That ending! My son ate one in that little skit.... it was hilarious!!!😂😂😂

The ending. I felt that.😅

Are all lavender varieties okay to prune back by 1/3? I vaguely remember reading something about not cutting into the woody part.

Funnily enough, we had a lavender plant which grew old and had dead wood. I watered it, hoping to revive it, and was pleasantly surprised when it came back to life. Don't ask me why or how. I guess it just wanted to live.

WOOT. I had no idea on the water and it is nice to know about fertilizer times. Over watering is probably why most of my seeds failed.

I love your videos, and I love the Purselane seeds I bought from you. I grow lavender and have had pretty good success with my plants. I do have have a question, though - the beautiful plant in your video is in a bed with some sort of melon or squash, it looks like. Doesn’t that other planet need water? Thanks for all you do for us!

can we plant it in mid august?

Well I e-mailed and got an immediate reply. They were slammed. 12,000 orders the first day of the sale alone. They will get there.

I just rescued a few overwatered lavendar plants from Walmart clearance, $1, and they are doing great!

Thank you for this video! My lavender has been on the struggle bus this summer probably from my overwatering. Now I know better!

Can I dig up my lavender plant and put in a new place with better soil? We babe mostly clay😢

I have my new Big Time Blue lavender in a pot so I can bring it in. My Angustifolia varieties did survive in zone 4, but we moved and now I’m in zone 3, plus I want to make it into a topiary, like my rosemary. They seem to have similar requirements, except the rosemary definitely can’t take the cold. Thank you for the tips!

Lavender is suppose to be perfect for my climate but I have so many issues with this plant! Thanks for the video.

I need to cut mine back big time this fall. They were in small pots before last year when I planted them in the front yard...they are HUGE now even smothering the hostas. Does anyone know if it is easy to dig up, move and/or split lavendar?

I said, the only thing handling this drought is lavender. We have sand and it’s I full sun. I cover it with pine boughs in winter as leaves would Matt down and rot it. Z5a, WI. I believe it is Munstead . The English lavenders are not as hardy. I have watered it, but not as much as other flowers. It gets a splash, not a soaking. I use them to outline the flower bed in garden and a row of rocks. I grow from seed and they seem to love it. I use to struggle to grow it and think it’s because those were English varieties.
About pruning—I’m not positive, but I don’t believe the woody stems should be pruned only soft growth and not sure if there is a certain time of year. I never had to prune and just leave them bush out.