By: Kathee Mierzejewski
If you like using the lemon grass herb in your soups and seafood dishes, you might have found that it’s not always readily available in your local grocery store. You may have wondered how to grow lemon grass on your own. Well, you can grow your own lemon grass plants and in fact, growing lemon grass and propagating lemon grass is not all the difficult so you don’t have to have a great green thumb to do so. Let’s take a look at how to grow lemon grass.
How do I grow lemon grass?
When you go to the grocery store next, find the freshest lemon grass plants you can buy. When you get it home, trim a couple of inches off the top of the lemon grass plants and peel away anything that looks somewhat dead. Take the stalks and put them into a glass of shallow water and put it near a sunny window.
After a few weeks, you should start seeing tiny roots at the bottom of the lemon grass herb stalk. It’s not much different than starting any other plant you start in a glass of water. Wait for the roots to mature a little more and then you can transfer the lemon grass herb to a pot of soil.
Growing lemon grass is as simple as taking your started plant out of the water and putting the rooted stalks into a pot containing all purpose soil with the crown just below the surface. You want to put this pot of lemon grass plants in a warm, sunny spot on a window ledge or out on your patio. Water it regularly.
If you live in a warm climate, you can plant your lemon grass plants out in the backyard in a bog or pond. Of course, growing the plant indoors is nice for having easy access to the fresh plant whenever you need it.
Propagating Lemon Grass
Propagating lemon grass isn’t much different from starting new plants from the store bought lemon grass herb. Just again, take a couple of inches off the top of the grown plant and place them in water in a glass on a window sill. Wait a few weeks and you will once again have a lemon grass herb ready for planting.
