Borage Growing Guide: 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)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

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