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Lemon grass will grow from seed like a weed-it`s keeping over winter that is a pain.I have come to the opinion that lemon grass ,like okra,and even galangal if you find it --is best just bought when one sees it and leave greenhouse space to what grows well.I love Thai food and I love Indian food-but I know when I am beaten-I don`t try to grow coconuts either
If you manage to buy any, check the stems at the bottom to see if it has the solid base. If yes it can be planted in a pot of damp compost in a warm situation and it will root and grow very quickly.
It's a rhizome like ginger and propagated the same way. I ogt one from th elocal Asian supermarket and got it to grow but started it too late on the season.Apparently the government of India has banned the export of Galangal plants - no idea why. The only advice I've seen is:"Buy a very fresh rhizome with unbruised pinkish shoots and plant shallowly in moist, well-drained soil. Like ginger, it grows into a lovely tropical plant for the garden, producing sweetly fragrant, white orchid-like flowers atop lush four-foot stems over many weeks in late summer and autumn. It grows very vigorously once established."
does it have to be brought in during the winter?
Quote from: thifasmom on March 09, 2009, 17:32:58does it have to be brought in during the winter?That's how mine died. Brought in indoors after it died back in the Autumn (checked the rhizome all ok and re-potted). It wasn't labelled and there was no growth showing on the surface so she put it back out in mid-January thinking it was one of my (many) failed horticultural experiments. :)
Quote from: thifasmom on March 09, 2009, 17:32:58does it have to be brought in during the winter?Thifasmom - you're not too far from me (over the border so to speak) and yes it should be brought in (have a dead lemon grass plant to prove the theory correct!), I presume its cold and wet that kills 'em off over winter.