Hand cultivating for lavender plants is an excellent workout! Our record number of lavender plants in the ground in one hour …. drum roll please….384! That’s 384 lavender plants in the ground in just one hour. OK, maybe not such a big deal if you have a machine to do all the work for you. We had 5 adults and 7 kids out there planting with us. And the two Mormon missionaries were the BOM! (No pun intended.)