Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Oliveview on June 08, 2008, 17:36
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I´ve some lemongrass (I think) growing in a pot- I sowed the seeds months ago- and now there are 3 small what looks like grass plants growing. 2 have been poking through now for a couple of months or more. I´ve googled for photos of lemongrass but the photos are not much help.
Pamela
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I've grown lemon grass several times, but not yet managed to bring it through a British winter.
It does look like grass, but with a purplish tinge to the leaves near the base. One plant eventually grew to nearly fill a 10" with its foliage.
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I've never grown them from seed, so don't know how normal it is for them to take that long. But yes, they look like grass leaves, a light shade of green I don't have purple tinge on mine.
Do you bring them in for the winter, Nikki?
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Well it looks like I might have 3 lemon grass plants coming up then :D - now what do I do with them?????? Is it better to just leave them in the flower pot I´ve got them growing in until they are much bigger? What do you actually do with lemongrass????? :oops:
Pamela
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Best to leave them in a large pot, they are an agrassive weed in their native habitat, bit like bamboo.
Eat them, lovely. Time to see some Asian recipes, maybe. The most sophisticated citrus flavour to dishes, I love it, much more than lemon or lime, especially in savoury.
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We use lemongrass skewers from ours ( It's huge) and do chicken on them like kebabs, gorgeous!
Definitely keep in a large pot, I learned this the hard way, I didn't and now our plant is gigantic and I initially planted it in one of our veggie beds! its got the whole bed to its self!
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Tried it in a pot
The cat ate it
Alex 98
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I grew one in suffolk and it survived the winter...(forgot to bring it in :oops: :oops: )....but as gobs said, wonderful in asian foods :)
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yeah I use it in a thai green curry with coconut milk, chillies and ginger. So so tastey!
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Thanks for all your replies- I did another Google and this time looked for information on Lemongrass- being a tad thick :oops: I did not realise it grew as an actual ´grass´ I imagined it growing like tiny bamboo plants :oops:
Better just transplant it into a big tub when it is bigger :D
Pamela
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Bob Flowerdew (?) grows it in polytunnel
And ginger
Alex 98
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i grew some outside and it looked lovely but it died over the winter! :cry:
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Do you bring them in for the winter, Nikki?
yup along with a fuschia which also died, they were in an unheated greenhouse, so perhaps they needed a bit more protection.
Used chopped in chinese stri fry, yum.
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Do you bring them in for the winter, Nikki?
yup along with a fuschia which also died, they were in an unheated greenhouse, so perhaps they needed a bit more protection.
Used chopped in chinese stri fry, yum.
Also, in Devon, bad luck, sorry. :(