We received the Lavender plants on Thursday, the girls and I laid in the landscape fabric in on Friday, and we all put the plants into the ground today. I still have some mulch to spread, but once that is done, and unless I need to buy and put in more mulch, we are done. It’s just a matter of watering while we still can this season, and letting the plants sit in over winter. Then we will see how they take off next year. So long as they do well, we can then begin to propagate the plants and get the animals ready to move across the street. That will clear up this side for a full-fledged lavender farm over here. We have put about $750 into this project so far, excluding a Domino’s order today. It’s cheap wages for the amount of work we got done!
Some of you will already see what is wrong with this picture. It will get fixed, and not just Photoshopped!
So, what’s the plan? We think there is an opportunity for a decent profit if we manage a lavender farm correctly and work out some good ways of selling it. We will have to see how it does over the next year or two, then see if we can start out selling in the Farmer’s Market ’till we are ready to have guests on the farm to self-harvest. The next goal is to sort out contracts with buyers and sell to oil producers, or to soap makers, or even florists.
Our one strip has 50 plants to begin with. Missus thinks that by next year we should be able to triple that, then triple that again the next. So, I have really got all of next summer to worry about moving the animals. I’d very much like to have water access put in by then as well, even though Lavender plants don’t require much that way. It would be helpful to that whole half of the yard, which will always have much more than just Lavender in it.
For now, my job now includes to mind those plants and make sure they are doing well!
So, I put down some mulch around the plants, then looked up how much there should be, and the answer is “none.” So, I get to clean up! Maybe tomorrow!
Up close, looking down the row. I had not yet added the mulch that is in the bags on the edge. But eventually I did, and now I get to clean it all up!