Heritage Grains

Two cultivars of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. (‘Compacta’ and ‘Hidcote’) and four cultivars of Lavandula × intermedia (‘Emerisa’, ‘Grosso’, ‘Provence’, and ‘Super’) were planted from 4-inch (10.2 cm) commercially obtained nursery stock in a randomized complete block design on June 24, 2002, at the New Mexico State University Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde in north-central New Mexico at an elevation of 5,724 feet (1,745 m). Plantings were made into a Fruitland sandy loam on raised beds with 36-inch (91.4 cm) spacing within and between rows…

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