Our New Adventure - Starting a Lavender Farm

[@thewolfethatcould8878]

What a great video! I look forward to watching more of them. One day I hope I am able to do this exact thing. Thank you for sharing it!

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@thewolfethatcould8878 Thank you so much! Farming is a great hobby. Good luck to you!

[@paule4696]

Best of luck to you. Very exciting. We're starting our own lavender farm this year.

[@jeepadventures1339]

That’s awesome! Good luck to you too!

[@ms.tep_]

How awesome!

[@jeepadventures1339]

Thank you! This project has taken so much of our time and energy. That’s why we haven’t had many videos for the channel.

[@ms.tep_]

@@jeepadventures1339 Well I can certainly see why! You have all been very busy!! I wish you the best of luck with your Lavendar farm! 🍀💞

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@ms.tep_ Thanks!

[@ms.tep_]

@@jeepadventures1339 You are so welcome.

[@sawomirchopecki4219]

Marvelous, dreaming of having similar in Poland! Could you tell my what are exact dimension of the rows (black ones), rows between them and spaces between the plants, uff :)?

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@sawomirchopecki4219 Thanks for your interest. Our rows are about 6 feet apart and the lavender are 2 or 3 feet apart depending on the variety.

[@josefwagner5710]

Looks amazing. What are you guys doing to keep the weeds under control??

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@josefwagner5710 We do a lot of hand-picking and we have a dr trimmer to weed along the edges. When the plants get bigger there is less room for weeds. Thank you for watching!

[@josefwagner5710]

@@jeepadventures1339 fair play! And is replacing dead plants a must if they’re spaced so closely? Or do the others fill out the gaps?

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@josefwagner5710 We replace them because ours is spaced too much to fill in the gaps. Humidity is a big problem for us so we space them a little more for air flow.

[@josefwagner5710]

Ah I see. Well fantastic job nonetheless! Our plants are still too small and it’s risky using the trimmer so having to do all by hand 😂 best of luck for the future!

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@josefwagner5710Thanks and same to you!

[@marcfisher5525]

We get some pretty high seasonal winds in our area of washington. Using the mulch layer, is the landscape fabric pretty secure? I had over 500 landscape 4" staples down and the wind gradually uprooted all of them :/ looking for an alternative.

[@jeepadventures1339]

The mulch layer works great as long as you get it set up just right. We adjusted it so that more dirt would cover the edges. We have had it down for a year with no staples and it hasn’t come up yet. It did take some time getting it adjusted. Wind is not our enemy down here it’s humidity.

[@marcfisher5525]

@@jeepadventures1339 alright, I appreciate the insight! Had 300 feet of fabric laid down last July and the wind had pulled it up last month unfortunately. Will try either mulch layer, or 12" staples, or both, next. I do like the look of the rows. Just hard to get my hands on a mulch layer

[@Gabesz313]

Hello! What kind of lavender did you plant? 'Hidcote'? What row and plant spacing did you use?

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@Gabesz313 we planted Hidcote at 2 ft spacing, phenomenal at 3 ft spacing. The rows are about 6 ft. Hidcote has struggled with our hot summers in VA.

[@Gabesz313]

@@jeepadventures1339 What kind of heat is it that the lavender struggled with? Pine mulch might be a better ground cover than gravel:)

[@jeepadventures1339]

@@Gabesz313 It gets into the upper 90s with high humidity. We also have heavy dew in the mornings.