2025 Seeds Are Now HERE!
2025 Seeds Are Now HERE!
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Orders are shipping 5-7 Business Days After Being Placed
Borago officinalis. An attractive annual, producing cucumber-flavored leaves and attractive flowers. Use to flavor salads, pickles, cream cheese spreads, or cook and eat like spinach. It is a surprisingly large plant for the size of the flowers it puts out. Flowers cluster on flower stalks in groups of 8-10 flowers all blue with a white center. Beautiful grown in containers. Grows 1-2'/25/61 cm high.
The Borage is a delightful plant with a beautiful flower. They have self seeded in the past in PA. It was purchased for my Twin in Georgia. Twin can start her seeds in Georgia about a month earlier than where I live in Pennsylvania. She planted all of them already. No news yet on how they have germinated so can only give 4 stars.
Twin in Pennsylvania
4.22.2025
omg my wife has borg growing everywhere its drawing in lots of bees so no complaints this is first time growing them with my tomatoes every 3rd tomato plant we planted borg first basil second was French marigold trying different things this year to help with bugs.
Borage has become an unlikely favorite in my garden. A few years ago, I tried it, because "Why not?" The stems are fuzzy, the flowers change between pink, light periwinkle, and blue, and have a refreshing taste. They make a pretty garnish. They have also been a gateway edible flower for friends. For some reason, friends have been willing to try these over say violas, marigold, or dandelion, for example. They're pleasantly surprised by the mild taste and a few have then been open to exploring other edibles. They easily reseed for the next year. I can't say enough good things!
Borage has great tasting flowers. My kids love eating them. Be aware that they do reseed easily if you don’t pick all the flowers. I had so many volunteers the next year. But they were easy to pull out when small and even transplanted well.
Fuzzy texture and vibrant electric blue sparse flowers added lively texture & color to my garden. Bees preferred it. I topped my toasted cream cheese bagels with the plucked blooms and the strawberries I interplanted them with. Flavor reminiscent of cucumber & violas. Perfection.
Some struggled when temperatures climbed to the 90's(F) and above.
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Nice big phat roots on 'em too, honestly the bed wasn't even prepared for how big the roots were. Which is a good "problem" to have if I'm being unclear
This is only my third go with gardening and so naturally I thought: “I oughta plant a few extras just in case”. Shortly after sown, 22 of 24 of the sunspot dwarf sunflower seeds have germinated! No clue where I’ll put them all yet but it’s a problem I’m happy to have. 🙂 Note:
One was not in the photo, I hadn’t moved it over to the larger pot yet. Also, If you’re a first time grower of sunflowers, please know this will not be enough room for this many of them. This photo is of a temporary home for them for just a few days while I sort more space. I didn’t plan to have so many growing this year. #Grow Bigger
This seed germinated beautifully!
I ordered two Natchez Blackberry plugs. If I had known the quality I would have ordered more! There was great care taken into consideration when it came to shipping these live plants. They arrived fully intact with not even a broken leaf. I'm hoping to expand my berry patch with thornless berries. Im tired of the old way of leaving sweat and tears in the berry patch. I'll definitely order more if given the chance.
Trying something I heard about. Planted sweet peas in the extra space around my asparagus. So far, so good.