Lemongrass

Several plants in a 3.5" pot. Frost-sensitive.

A tropical, perennial herb. Most descriptions online tell you lemongrass likes fertile soil and lots of water. While that's probably what it prefers, we've successfully grown it at Ripcord, in sandy desert soil, giving it as much water as the rest of our annual crops.

For home gardeners, lemongrass can be grown in a pot (at least two gallons) and moved indoors next winter, or it can be planted in the ground and treated as an annual. We've had good luck with both approaches, harvesting at least a dozen stalks, about as thick as your thumb, from each cluster of plants.