Lemongrass Plant Care At Home

Lemon verbena plants have elongated leaves but they aren t grassy.

Lemongrass plant care at home. It also has healing properties repels insects and makes an excellent addition to lotions and other toiletries. Let s take a look at how to grow lemongrass. Honestly once it s growing lemongrass is very easy to tend. So now you ve got a few lemongrass plants growing how do you tend them.

The only real risk is cold temperatures. Thai and other asian recipes as well as light summer recipes. In addition to its delicious and delicate flavor lemongrass cymbopogon citratus makes an attractive plant in the garden whether you grow it in the ground or in containers. A vigorous grass lemongrass is easy to grow with these simple plant care tips.

Lemongrass cymbopogon citratus as its name suggests is a lemony tasting grassy herb. Place plants in a sunny sheltered position over summer and keep well watered. Sow seeds 5cm deep and 50cm apart. When you get home trim a couple of inches 5 cm off the top of the lemongrass plants and peel away anything that looks somewhat dead.

Firstly you can buy lemongrass seeds from bunnings which will take around 21 days to germinate. The plants tend to self propagate and they ll constantly send off side shoots and expand even in small pots. For all of these reasons it is a wonderful plant to grow at home. When you go to the grocery store find the freshest lemongrass plants you can buy.

The care of lemon grass. How to grow you can plant lemongrass in all three of its life stages. How to grow lemongrass in a pot. Although both lemongrass and lemon verbena aloysia citrodora will both make a pleasing cup of tea the plants have a different appearance and different growing requirements where lemongrass is a moisture lover lemon verbena plants like it on the dry side.