Love lavender? Me too! And growing it in my garden means I have found plenty of ways to use lavender in my home. I grow a variety of plants and harvest them yearly. I keep the dried flower buds in a large jar in my kitchen and another in my craft room. Some of the ways to use lavender is in culinary recipes, natural beauty, and crafts; but first, you need to harvest it!
Step 1: Harvest Lavender
I have just a few backyard lavender plants and from that I get more craft materials than I know what to do with! I leave the flowers on the plant for as long as I can (for the bees) but then it’s harvest time!
Harvesting English Lavender & How To Use It
Step 2: Ways to Use Lavender
Check out all of the crafts, projects, and recipes that can be done with just a few backyard lavender plants and/or lavender essential oil in the list below.
- Serenity Now! DIY Lavender Eye Pillows
- Blackberry-Lavender Soda
- Lavender and Oatmeal Tub Teas
- Lavender Dryer Bags
- Lavender Linen Water Recipe and Printable Label
- Dried Lavender Wreath
- Lavender Sachets
- Homemade Bath and Body Gifts Kids Can Make
- If This Doesn’t Help You Sleep I Don’t Know What Will!
- Soaps, Lotions, and Potions from the Garden
- Easy Infused Sugar Recipes
- Tub Tea Time!
- All Natural Vick’s Vapo Rub Recipe
- Healing Cuticle Balm Recipe
- Gardener’s Herbal Foot Soak Recipe
- DIY Plantable Seed Paper = Valentine’s Day Cards
- Cold-Process All-Natural Handmade Soap
- Lovely Lavender Ombre Melt and Pour Soap
- Gorgeous Lavender Oatmeal Soap Cupcakes (that Anyone can Make)
- Lavender and Cocoa Butter Bath Melts
- Infused Herbal Oils
A city girl who learned to garden and it changed everything. Author, artist, Master Gardener. Better living through plants.
Had no idea you could use lavender this way thanks for your ideas I enjoy your blog very much and always take some new information with me.