Lemongrass Plant Care At Home

How to grow you can plant lemongrass in all three of its life stages.

Lemongrass plant care at home.

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. The care of lemon grass. Cymbopogon known widely as lemongrass is a traditional ingredient in asian cooking. A vigorous grass lemongrass is easy to grow with these simple plant care tips.

How to grow lemongrass in a pot. When roots show through the bottom move into a larger pot it may be necessary to do this several times plants eventually ending up in a 20cm 8in pot before the lemongrass is ready to be placed in a sunny spot outside in early summer. It also has healing properties repels insects and makes an excellent addition to lotions and other toiletries. So now you ve got a few lemongrass plants growing how do you tend them.

The plants tend to self propagate and they ll constantly send off side shoots and expand even in small pots. Let s take a look at how to grow lemongrass. 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. Thai and other asian recipes as well as light summer recipes.

Honestly once it s growing lemongrass is very easy to tend. When you go to the grocery store find the freshest lemongrass plants you can buy. Lemon verbena plants have elongated leaves but they aren t grassy. 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.

Secondly you can propagate lemongrass from a cutting see the method below and plant in the ground. For all of these reasons it is a wonderful plant to grow at home. Firstly you can buy lemongrass seeds from bunnings which will take around 21 days to germinate. Lemongrass cymbopogon citratus as its name suggests is a lemony tasting grassy herb.