Borage

 

Borage Seeds

by Botanical Interests

  • The cheerful herb for any garden or salad
  • Flowers in the shape of little blue stars
  • A handful of little blue stars, sprinkled on a summer salad, may drive away all melancholy
  • Leaves are hairy, but they are edible and taste like cucumbers
  • Borage grows to 18 inches and reseeds.

The intense blue flowers this plant produces make any food presentation quite special. You can eat the cucumber tasting leaves too but they are hairy. Borage grows best when you direct seed it. Grows to 18".

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Borage Medicinal Tender annual/Reseeding According to Culpepper's 17th century Herbal, -inch The leaves, flowers, and seed, all or any of them, are good to expel pensiveness and melancholy.-inch Bushy, fuzzy-leafed plants produce edible 1-inch. blue flowers that bees love. Tasty in tea and salads, the flowers also make pretty cake decorations. Plating Depth: 1-inch, Soil Temp. for Germ: 60-75-Degree F, day to Germ: 7-14 Plant Spacing: 12-inch 18-inch, day to Maturity: 60-70 Full Sun to Partial shade Moderate Water

 

 Month to Month Care for Borage

Month of January

Borage - Borage grows well indoors in a sunny window or under fluorescent lights, one warm and one cool set at 2 to 4 inches above the plants.  It will also thrive under high intensity halide or sodium lights. In artificial light situations, Borage needs 14 to 16 hours of light a day.

Month of February

Borage – Borage readily reseeds itself, so if you had it last year, you are likely to have lots of it this year in about the same place.  The small seedlings are easy to pull up so your garden is not taken over.  

Month of March

Borage – Borage grows easily from seed so can be started indoors about 2 to 4 weeks before expected last frost.  When the plants are two inches tall, you can transplant them into pots or into a flat for transplanting outside when it is warm enough.

Month of April

Borage – Borage seedlings are available from the garden center.  Borage also grows easily from seed.  Plant seedlings or sow seed outdoors in the spring when you are certain the danger of frost has passed and when the soil has warmed to a temperature of about 50F.  Plant the seeds about 1/8 inch deep.  When seedlings appear, thin the plants to leave 2 feet of space between them. Plant seedlings 2 feet apart.  Borage prefers full sun, but can handle some shade. 

Borage is a light feeder.  In good soil it needs no additional fertilizer.  If your soil is not yet in shape, it is probably wise to give it an application of slow-acting, granular fertilizer at planting time.  Be careful - over-feeding Borage stimulates excessive foliage production that reduces the flavor of Borage leaves.

Month of May

Borage – Mulching Borage helps to keep the ground moist and warm and discourages weeds.  

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Month of October

Borage – Borage outside will die with the first hard frost but it will reseed itself for next year.  However, Borage grows well indoors in a sunny window, or under fluorescent lights, one warm and one cool set at 2 to 4 inches above the plants.  It will also thrive under high intensity halide or sodium lights. In artificial light situations, Borage needs 14 to 16 hours of light a day.

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