My new sweetgrass plants arrived this past Friday and I couldn't be more thrilled with them! They came from Redwood City Seed Company in California.
I bought 6 plants, but to me they were more like plugs... much more than I had expected and were packaged very well. They also came with very clear instructions for planting. So, off to the garden center I went to buy potting mix, bone meal, blood meal and liquid fish fertilizer...
So, while my plants were soaking in the liquid fish solution, I put planting mix in the pots... added bone meal and blood meal...
There is about a 1' of space around the plants and these pots will sit on my deck railing. We had a gentle rain most of that day and the next, so they were off to a pretty good start... I hope. With weekly feedings, the planters should be pretty full of sweetgrass by the end of the summer, yeah! Wish me luck...
I thought I had read you couldn't grow sweet grass in pots? I tried that once and it didn't work for me, but I don't have the best track record with keeping my plants properly watered.
ReplyDeleteGood luck and let us know how they do. I keep thinking about trying to grow some again, but I think I am just out of the idea growing zone from sweet grass.
Tony
I've had good luck in the past growing sweetgrass in a huge pot, but they are REAL THIRSTY... in the summer I would move the pot to a spot that would get mostly morning sun and water both morning and night. Once the pot dries out, I would have to put in a wheel barrow full of water to soak. The blades do get longer when in the ground though.
ReplyDeleteAnette, is this the sweetgrass I sent you a few years back in the big pot?
ReplyDeleteI fertilize mine, but it is in the ground. It spreads like wild fire and I need to get rid of some again. My garden is in danger of being ALL sweet grass.
I am thinking of going to the pot growing method as keeping it under control in the ground is a real job. Or maybe I should just move it out of my garden. Mine gets as tall as 24-36".
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