Description
Edible blue flowers with a delicate cucumber flavor.
Toss eye-catching flowers on top of salads or add them as a unique garnish to beverages and sweets. For a creative twist, freeze them into ice cubes!
Make tea from fresh or dried flowers and leaves. Young leaves are edible when cooked tasting a bit like spinach or nettles – do not eat mature leaves as they will be fuzzy in your throat (Erica speaks from experience!). We enjoyed borage stuffed ravioli on our trip to Italy in 2018 – it was delicious!
Erica & Mike at N&N Farm have been growing borage for 30 years and absolutely love it! Old-school organic gardening books say every organic garden needs borage because it is said to be a companion plant, its sweet nectar makes it a bee magnet, attracting beneficial insects & pollinators. Plants will re-seed enough to come back every year but not enough to become a weed.
Height: 18-30″
50-60 days to maturity.