Borage Seeds

Borage Seeds

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Your vegetable garden's best friend
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Key Characteristics
Days To Maturity

56

Mature Height

24 IN

Mature Width

12 IN

Sun / Shade

Full Sun

Bloom Size

0-1.5 IN

Habit

Upright

Description / Borage Seeds

Days to Maturity: 56 from direct sow

It makes strawberries fruit more heavily, keeps hornworms off the tomatoes, and increases yields of cucumbers, gourds, and other fruiting plants. Borage is more than just a pleasant edible herb. It's a garden guardian, and it belongs in your sunny annual bed as well as the vegetable patch and herb garden.

An annual (or biennial) with handsome small blue blooms as well as long, toothy leaves, Borage Seeds grow quickly and self-sows readily. It needs to be direct sown where it is to grow, because it forms a long taproot that does not transplant well. So after you've transplanted your tomatoes and set your strawberry runners, drop a few seeds in holes ¼ to ½ inch deep and spaced about a foot apart in full sun. Cover with ½-inch of soil, and within 2 weeks you will see green shoots.

Borage flowers in early to midsummer, and the blue blooms make lovely garnishes for salads and cakes. The young leaves have a cucumber flavor, and are quite edible as well, though they can become tougher with maturity. Try them in tea and in potpourri.

But aside from its culinary use, Borage is simply your fruit and vegetables' best friend. It is a bee magnet, and seems to repel several types of predatory pests while simultaneously welcoming "good bugs" into the garden. Strawberries are its boon companion, and it has been shown to increase the yields of this fruit. Tomatoes also benefit. There is simply no place in the sunny garden that borage shouldn't go.

This herb self-sows, so if you want to avoid unwanted seedlings in the spring, choose which plants you allow to go to seed. (Simply snip the bloomheads off the others and remove them from the garden, using the flowers as garnish or flavoring.) Let the others remain through fall, and nature will do the rest.

Borage reaches about 2 feet high, with 1½-inch star-shaped blooms of brilliant azure. We didn't even mention the reason many gardeners grow it: its beautiful ornamental appeal. An all-around must-have for any sunny garden spot.

Product Details

SKU 00337-PK-P1
Genus Borago
Species officinalis
Product Classification Annuals, Herbs, Seeds
Sun / Shade Full Sun
Bloom Season Start Mid Summer
Bloom Color Blue
Max Bloom Size 1.50
Foliage Color Medium Green
Habit Upright
Days To Maturity 56.00
Harvest Season Early Summer, Mid Summer
Resistance Deer Resistance, Disease Resistant, Heat Tolerant, Humidity Tolerant, Pest Resistant
Characteristics Bloom First Year, Butterfly Lovers, Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Edible, Flower, Fragrance, Herbs, Pest Fighter
Uses Beds, Cuisine, Outdoor, Wildflowers

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  1. Jenny

    Amazed me 0 people found this helpful

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    I planted these seeds the last 2 years, direct sow in my full sun veg garden. The first year, germination was meh & they didn't get very tall & in general, didn't do too well. BUT it was a rough year for both bugs & a variety of other problems in the general area where they'd been planted. This year, they have been AMAZING. So tall, so full & the blooms are gorgeous - and they germinated and bloomed while every other flower I planted from seed took forever. The only problems I've had are that some of the leaves have been susceptible to either bugs or too much rain, but so has everything. We had rainstorms on a daily basis for awhile & caused a bunch to fall over alarmingly, the stalks becoming like over-saturated celery stalks. BUT to my surprise, after I added supports & we finally had a couple drier days, they started looking great again. I had thought they might be done for. There was one small branch of sorts, still with many buds on it, that broke off - I put it in a vase & it proceeded to bloom gorgeously. I intend to use them for cutting & vases again, if I can bear to remove them from how wonderful they look in the garden - the bees love them too. So I'll definitely be buying more.
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  2. Jenni

    Most Useful Plant 0 people found this helpful

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    This stuff is amazing!! Last year, I planted some borage seeds (very late) near my tomatoes. The tomatoes got tomato worms before the borage had grown. As soon as the borage came up, though, the worms left, and we never saw another. This year, the borage self sowed from last year's plants. It is much more abundant that last year. Even during this drought, the borage is very tall and looks great. My pollinators LOVE IT!! All of the time, I can find butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds on it. I have also seen finches perched on it. Family members live on our road as well. We all have several hummingbird feeders. As soon as my borage started blooming, their hummingbirds all moved into my back yard. I have also read that it has nutritional benefits. Both the leaves and the blooms have a really cool, refreshing flavor. I would say it is most similar to cucumber. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems that it would be good in lemonade. This is an all around amazing plant. I would reco
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  3. jet

    controls tomatoe worms 0 people found this helpful

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    borage works great at preventing romatoe hook worms.,...also self sows year to year
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