How to Grow Borage: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Borago officinalis

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• How to Sow Borage Seed: Depth, Spacing and Why Not to Transplant
• Borage Care: Stopping It Flopping and Cutting Back for a Second Flush
• Picking Borage Flowers and Leaves: How to Pull the Star Cleanly
• Borage Growing Calendar: Sowing, Cutting Back and Seed Drop
• Borage Pests and Problems: Blackfly, Mildew and Collapsing Stems
• Borage Seed: Saving It and Keeping the Self-Sown Colony in Check

Pests and diseases (2)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.