Herb / Warm season
Munstead Lavender
Dry sunny borders, herb gardens, and containers with gritty mix.
Fragrant flower spikes for culinary, sachet, and pollinator use.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 90
- Germination temperature
- 65-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 10 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Start indoors, harden off, then transplant into the final bed when local timing is safe.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 24 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Do not plant in heavy wet soil; crowns rot easily. Water to establish, then keep on the dry side. Lean, sharply drained soil with low humidity around the crown.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Water to establish, then keep on the dry side.
- Soil
- Lean, sharply drained soil with low humidity around the crown.
- Watch
- Do not plant in heavy wet soil; crowns rot easily.
- herb
- perennial
- pollinators
- containers
Browse context
- Herb Catalog Category collection
- Mint Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: UMN starting seeds indoors