Borago officinalis

Long blooming bee powerhouse with delightfully cucumber-flavored flowers.

Honeybees especially go wild for borage! These plants bloom all summer long and easily self-sows for blooms next year. The oil from their difficult-to-catch seeds is potent medicine. Both the scratchy leaves and the dainty flowers are edible and have a pleasant cucumber flavor. The scratchy spines on the leaves disappear when cooked. Open-pollinated.

Seeds grown by Quel Ranch in Garden City, Idaho.

15 seeds.

Directions: Direct seed outdoors two weeks before last frost, or start indoors 6 weeks before last frost and transplant outside after frost.