Salad Burnet ,Herb Seeds

Organic Herb, Salad Burnet Seeds (Sanguisorba Minor) Unique leaf shape for salads, garnishes. Heirloom
Salad Burnet herb is popular for its culinary uses. The leaves have a fresh cucumber flavor and are nice in salads. The pretty leaves also make an attractive garnish.

The leaves also are used to flavor vinegars, salad dressings and sauces. The Salad Burnet plant also has been used as a medicinal herb. It contains vitamin C. It was once used against the Plague, but today it is often used as an astringent.

Sanguisorba minor is a plant in the family Rosaceae that is native to western, central and southern Europe; northwest Africa and southwest Western Asia; and which has naturalized in most of North America.
This windowsill herb is great for flavoring salads when fresh cucumber is not in season! Unique leaf shape for salads, garnishes.
Mild cucumber flavor. Oval-toothed leaflets and deep crimson flowerheads. Medicinal: The root is used as a wound herb to stop bleeding. 70 days to harvest when started indoors. Hardiness zones: 4-8. Avg. 2,800 seeds/oz. Packet: 100 seeds.
Salad burnet is a wonderful cooling herb whose leaves taste just like cucumbers! Simply eat the entire tiny 1/2-inch leaf, and the exact taste of cucumbers will magically appear after you have swallowed! Perfect for salads, dips, and sandwiches.
Growing 6-10 inches tall and 8-12 inches wide, the leaves of salad burnet form a basal rosette of long stems lined with tiny 1/2 inch leaves that look like tiny paw prints. Easy to grow in rich moist soil in full sun.
Start these herb seeds and grow Salad Burnet for a pretty little perennial herb that has culinary use. It makes a very nice container plant or grown in the herb garden, it makes an attractive border. The Salad Burnet herb has uniquely shaped leaves and forms a rounded bush with nice leaf coverage. It produces pink-purple flowers which can be pinched out to encourage the production of fresh leaves.

Grow the Salad Burnet plant in full sun or partial shade. It is not particular about soil as long as it drains well. Water the herb plant regularly during periods of high temperatures.

Harvest the leaves as needed. The young leaves on plants that have not flowered have the best flavor. The Salad Burnet plant will spread by rhizomes, but it is not considered to be invasive. It is known to self-seed, but deadheading the flowers will prevent seeds from spreading in the herb garden.

• Season: Perennial
• USDA Zones: 4 - 9
• Height: 12 - 24 inches
• Bloom Season: Late spring to mid fall
• Environment: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil Type: ph 6.1 - 7.8
• Planting Directions
• Temperature: 68F
• Average Germ Time: 7 - 14 days
• Light Required: Yes
• Depth: Barely cover seed no more than 1/4 inch
• Sowing Rate: 15 - 20 seeds per plant
• Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
• Plant Spacing: 8 - 12 inches apart, in rows 18 inches apart