9th June
Another seasonal harvest is lavender.
Lavender is best picked before in the morning before the sun warms the flowers releasing their fragrant oil and best picked before the flowers become to open – again to ensure maximum fragrant oil that you are essentially harvesting. The cut flowers are put in paper bags (or large envelopes) before being put somewhere to dry – eg the airing cupboard.
Later in the year the dried flowers can be put into cotton bags and used to scent drawer and bed linen.
However only cut some of the flowers. Leave plenty of flowers for the insects – especially bees – and then for the birds – such as goldfinches – which in the winter will enjoy pecking out the seeds.
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