Common Mallow Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Malva sylvestris

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• How to Sow Mallow Seed: Scarifying, Depth and Why It Hates Transplanting
• Mallow Care: Keeping It Upright, Unfed and Free of Rust
• Harvesting Mallow Flowers for Tea: Picking, Drying and Keeping the Color
• Mallow Growing Calendar: Sowing, Flowering, Rust and the Seed Decision
• Mallow Pests and Diseases: Hollyhock Rust, Sawfly and Flea Beetle
• Propagating Mallow: Saving Seed and Controlling the Self-Sown Colony

Pests and diseases (1)

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.