Boring borage

[bargainhunter]

Hello all, i have had success growing borage ( duchy organic i'll have you know) !
Any way its growing well, but its quite prickly - i thought the leaves were edible as well as the flowers not that there are any flowers yet!

The leaves are about 7 - 10 inches and the plants are standing approx. 6 ins high.

Am i being impatient?

[Jeanied]

I think so, Bargainhunter - Borage gets to flowering when it is 18" - 2 foot high.
I've never eaten the leaves because they are pretty prickly but the flowers are nice.

[hawthorns]

i got my borage as a plug plant and it is now huge with about 50 flowers on it.

[digthatchick]

You may have already seen this, but a great page for the uses of Borage
Borage

[Buleste]

I put some Borage in my greenhouse with my tomato's as a companion plant and they're about 5 foot tall but acting as great shading for the tomato's and the flowers are stunning and attracting a lot of beneficial insects. However I haven't a clue how they taste although they do seem to produce a lot of nectar.

[Flummery]

The flowers are gorgeous in a salad though they are purely decorative, the leaves taste a bit like cucumber. Rub them a bit to take off the prickliness. My favourite use for them though, is to freeze a flower in each section of an ice cube tray and use them in my summer G&T!

[bargainhunter]

ooooh yeah never thought of that flummery - thanks

So i just wait a little longer and then i can munch thanks everybody

[Mac]

I've tasted my first borage leaf the other day, and couldn't believe how cucumbery it was! Have only got a couple of little plants at the moment, but am hoping they come on quickly now the weather has heated up a bit! Am loving the ice cube idea Flummery!

[smallblueplanet]

Our borage leaves & flowers go into our Pimms & lemo!

[basketcase]

Our borage leaves & flowers go into our Pimms & lemo!

I thought that was why people grew it...

I mean, I was environmentally responsible and planted it to attract bees!

[taff]

they do much better in open ground than in a pot though and will self seed mercilessly.

[rustylady]

and will self seed mercilessly.

Do they ever!! I still get plants from the original sowing 5 years ago.

[shirlthegirl43]

Do they ever!! I still get plants from the original sowing 5 years ago.

Me too but they are pretty so I don't mind

[gillian62]

I put an ice cube with borage flower in my son's coke. He wanted to know why there was a fly in his drink! and when I explained it was a flower, he still wasn't sure why it was there. I think I'll save them for my elderflower cordial, and enjoy them myself. LOL!

[cupcake]

My favourite use for them though, is to freeze a flower in each section of an ice cube tray and use them in my summer G&T!

A girl after my own heart!