June 29th, 2018 Harvesting Our Grosso & Phenomenal

   On 6/14.2018, we posted some photos of our English lavender harvest.  I was a bit disappointed. While the lavender was beautiful, there was not as much as I had hoped.  We did get some bundles and dried them.  We had a lot of the English lavender eaten by our bunnies the first year and so most of the replants I did this spring were from that.  I replanted or replaced more than 20 plants.  Because of those reasons, the English harvest just wasn't as big as expected.  However,  next year I am hoping for a bit more.  All the plants look great and we have conquered the bunny situation finally.  

I have been anxiously awaiting the Grosso and Phenomenal harvest.  These are just second year plants and our first harvest.  We got so much MORE than I expected and I am thrilled!  I was really a bit edgy about planting Grosso, as I know it doesn't overwinter as well as English lavender or Phenomenal.  However, both rows of Grosso we planted not only survived, but have thrived and given us a terrific start to harvest.  We still have some plants that weren't ready to be harvested, but we harvested about 3/4 of the plants last night.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.  

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