Never tried growing from seed but I had reasonable results using lemongrass from the supermarket.
Just pop the stalks into a glass with some water in it and within a couple of weeks roots appear, then pot up as usual. I kept mine growing for several years in 12L pots, bringing in in the winter and leaving them almost dry in an unheated room, then back out when frost has finished. Feed very little or you'll just get very long leaves.
The stems never really thickened-up much and the flavour was not as good as the stuff grown in thailand, so in the end I gave up. The leaves make very nice tea!
good luck!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
i'm going to grow these in pots eventually so hoping i can keep them nice and warm in the winter so hoping that should be ok, it's really the sowing that i need advise with, whether to sow a single seed in one cell or to put a small pinch in? just not sure about lemongrass and whether the seedlings will need thinning out or if i can leave them to clump together like basil?
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Never tried growing from seed but I had reasonable results using lemongrass from the supermarket.
Just pop the stalks into a glass with some water in it and within a couple of weeks roots appear, then pot up as usual.
I kept mine growing for several years in 12L pots, bringing in in the winter and leaving them almost dry in an unheated room, then back out when frost has finished. Feed very little or you'll just get very long leaves.
The stems never really thickened-up much and the flavour was not as good as the stuff grown in thailand, so in the end I gave up.
The leaves make very nice tea!
good luck!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
i'm going to grow these in pots eventually so hoping i can keep them nice and warm in the winter so hoping that should be ok, it's really the sowing that i need advise with, whether to sow a single seed in one cell or to put a small pinch in? just not sure about lemongrass and whether the seedlings will need thinning out or if i can leave them to clump together like basil?
Pete8, exactly what I've done.