Your Step By Step Guide To Grow Lemongrass At Home

There's truly nothing quite like the satisfaction of harvesting fresh herbs, vegetables, and fruits from your home garden and using them for your everyday culinary creations. Gardening enthusiasts, if you are looking for a new addition for your indoors and outdoors, lemongrass could be a good pick. Lemongrass is a versatile herb with culinary and medicinal uses. Lemongrass grows quickly in diverse climate conditions, making it just the perfect addition to your home garden.

How To Grow Lemongrass At Home?

• Lemongrass can be grown using stalks. These can be purchased from a nursery. Make sure these are fresh and healthy stalks with intact roots. 
• The top part of the lemongrass stalks should be trimmed off. 
• Place the remaining four to six inches of stalks in a jar of water. The base should be completely submerged in water. 
• Once the roots begin to develop, it usually takes a few weeks for it to grow.
• It's time to transfer the lemongrass stalks into the soil. 
• Prepare the soil with good drainage. Ask the gardener to give you a well-draining potting mix to grow lemongrass at home. If required, mix organic mix available at the nursery, this improves drainage.  

• Water the newly planted lemongrass well. It helps the roots grow quickly. Keep the soil hydrated. (Guide to grow common herbs)
• Place the lemongrass plant in a warm and sunny location. The plant should ideally get six to eight hours of sunlight each day.
• Though lemongrass doesn't require a lot of fertlisation, you can use a balanced fertiliser once a month to promote healthy growth.

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• Lemongrass grows tall quickly and to maintain its growth, ensure you keep trimming off the dead or yellowing leaves.
• Lemongrass can be harvested soon after it grows tall. While harvesting, make sure you don't harvest more than one-third of the plant, this helps in continued growth.

Tips To Grow Lemongrass Plant Quickly

• Rajesh, a local gardener working for a nursery in Janakpuri said, "Watering helps lemongrass grow quickly, especially during the warmer months. Ensure the soil doesn't dry out completely. Also, overwatering can rot the roots, so make sure you are watering the plant accordingly."
• Lemongrass plants grow quite large. To promote its growth, there should be enough space around it.
• Do regular trimming of the plant, and cut the yellowing leaves. (Lemongrass for menstrual cramps)

• Use a balanced fertiliser once a month during the growth season (summer) to grow lemongrass quickly. 

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• While planting lemongrass in a cooler climate, bring the plant indoors to protect it from frost. You can protect it outdoors by covering it with frost cloth.

Growing herbs in your home garden is indeed a fulfilling experience. We hope this guide helps you grow fragrant lemongrass at home. For more such gardening guides and tips, stay tuned to HerZindagi.com