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How to grow Salad Burnet
Sanguisorba minor
🌿 Herb
🔁 Perennial
Pretty, lacy leaves that taste of cucumber, for salads, drinks and soft cheese. An evergreen perennial that gives leaves even in winter.
At a glance: Sow late March to mid June, harvest from late May.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Salad Burnet: what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Keep evenly moist; water pots daily in hot weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 30 cm
- Height
- 40 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A liquid feed every two weeks for pot-grown plants
- Harvest
- About 70 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 4–8
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Late March – mid June · 3 weeks before the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in shallow drills where they are to grow.
- 10–21 days after “Sow Seeds Indoors” · Early April – mid April
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 10–21 days. Keep the compost moist. If sown outdoors, thin to 30 cm apart.
- 49–70 days after “Check Germination” · Late May – mid June
Start Harvesting
Pick young leaves from the centre; old leaves turn bitter.
- 21–35 days after “Start Harvesting” · Mid June – late June
Pinch Out Flower Buds
Cut off flower stems as they appear to keep tender leaves coming.
Every year
- MarchCut Back Old Growth
Cut back tatty old leaves to make way for fresh growth.
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