Description
Salad Burnet Herb Garden Seeds. 70 to 100 Days. Sanguisorba minor. Non-GMO, Heirloom, Open Pollinated. Perennial in USDA zones 4 to 8, but can be grown as an annual. Makes for a fantastic microgreen with a mild cucumber flavor. One of the most underrated gardening herbs in the world, salad burnet is a European delicacy grown to harvest its tender, aromatic greens. Salad burnet matures at about 24� tall with a unique, colorful spread of round fuchsia blooms very similar to crimson clover. Similar to all leafy greens, harvest burnet leaves when young and tender for best flavor. Salad burnet is a warm weather crop that can be started indoors or sown directly after the frost. For earliest starts, begin indoors 6-8 weeks prior to final frost. Sow 2-3 seeds � in deep per cell or every 6-8 inches in the garden in moderately moist, fertile, and well-drained soil in full sun. Germinates in 7-10 days, thin back to 1 plant per pot or 10-12 in. apart in garden once true leaves establish. Burnet is not tolerant to drought, frost, or extremes. 3150 seeds per ounce.
