Herbs: Growing Lavender, 1 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
I killed 6 lavender plants before I realized that my clay soil was preventing proper drainage. Being to lazy to go buy a bag of sand and dig it in ;-), I tried another approach: I just watered the 2 new plants a whole lot less than I did the previously killed plants. LOL It worked. And now a year on, those 2 plants are nearly 1.5 meters tall. Still waiting for blooms, but they really are lovely and smell great even with "just" the foliage. So even very clay soil can work for lavender so long as you make sure they don't get too much water when they are young.

-Julie