Perilla Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Perilla frutescens

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• Sowing Perilla for Seed Heads: Depth, Timing and Spacing
• Caring for Perilla Grown for Seed: Water, Feed and Support
• Pinching Perilla Grown for Seed: What to Cut and What to Leave
• Perilla Seed Crop Calendar: From Sowing to Clearing the Bed
• Perilla Pests and Diseases: Protecting the Leaves and the Ripening Seed
• Harvesting Perilla Seed Heads: Three Stages, Three Short Windows

Pests and diseases (0)

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