We've talked a lot about lavender both on the YouTube channel and here on the podcast but we're doing a specific episode today for how to cultivate it in

containers.

It is a plant that has uses in the kitchen

and in sort of aeromatics, so to speak.

But even just as an aesthetic ornamental planting,

sometimes growing it in a container gives it that

look that you're going for because you can choose the container that fits with your space, all these

sorts of things. So how do we cultivate it in containers? How does that actually change? I would say not a whole lot, not a whole lot, but there are some

considerations. Lavender, when you're making a soil mix for lavender, it wants a somewhat gritty mix. It's a

Mediterranean herb, Mediterranean plant, it wants that sort of loose, somewhat

alkaline, moderately fertile but really not super rich in nutrients and it needs to drain and

aerate very well. It's going to root rot out really quickly, more so than other

plants and it's going to struggle if you really mulch it like crazy.

Again, it's really kind of an arid plant, an arid climate lover.

So if you were to make a mix for lavender, something that you might want to do would be a potting mix, then you mix in,

well three parts potting mix, excuse me, then you mix in some clay pebbles,

something nice and large, you know, some rocks, something like that, and then some

pumice, right? Then you can put a little compost, whatever in there. Another thing you could do,

if you wanted to get a little bit less complex is just take potting soil one to one with either purlite or sand or some kind of fine rock or gravel type of thing.

Now, what kind of pot should you choose? Well it depends on how big you want your

lavender to get. I would say most lavender can get up to around mmm man I mean they can

actually get really crazy.

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