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With a strong lemon flavour, the tender fresh green leaves can be used in soups, salads, and sauces. Planting in light shade and keeping the seed stalks cut increases summer quality and good leaves will reappear in autumn even if plants bolt.
Botanical Name
Lifecycle
Sowing Time
Preferred Growing Method
Soil Temperature for Optimum Germination
Days to Germination
Days to Maturity
Plant Spacing
Plant Height
Sowing Time
Sowing time refers to the optimum time for sowing seed of a variety to encourage strong and vigorous growth. Whilst some varieties may be able to be sown outside the range suggested, they will generally perform best when sown in the approximate seasonal ranges provided.
A lot of seeds need consistent warmth to help them germinate. The best way to achieve this is to sow at the right time. By sowing in season when the conditions are optimum for seed germination you are increasing your chances of success. Slight bottom heat, approximately 20°C, can speed germination of many varieties.
To reference the best sowing times for a variety, we use sow numbers as detailed here:
DIRECT SOW
General Definitions
Annual
A plant that completes its entire life cycle (germinates, grows a plant, flowers, produces seed, dies) in one season. It may self-sow, thereby giving the impression of being perennial. Most annuals will flower 60 to 75 days from sowing.
Hardy Annual
An annual that does not need to be germinated indoors but can be sown direct into its growing position in the garden in spring and is tolerant of frost.
Tender Annual
An annual that is frost tender and can be germinated indoors. Sowing direct or planting outdoors must not occur until all danger of frost has passed (also known as a Half-Hardy Annual).
Biennial
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in two years - growing in the first, reproducing and dying in the second. Typically, but not always, producing flowers only in the second year.
Perennial
A plant that can live for more than two years, surviving the winter and flowering each year from the second season. Perennials may flower within 90 days of sowing in their first season but will more typically flower in their second
season.
Hardy Perennial
A perennial that is frost-tolerant.
Tender Perennial
A perennial that is frost tender.
Hardy
A plant that will survive frost.
Tender
A plant that will not survive frost.
Bolting
Going to seed. Premature formation of a seed stalk, may be due to plant stress.
Botanical Name
The formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for plants. Identifies the genus and species to which the plant belongs useful in distinguishing plants uniquely.
Cotyledon
The seed leaves or first leaves that emerge from a germinated seed, different in form from the later true leaves.
True Leaves
The leaves that emerge after the cotyledons which are indicative of the true form
of the plant’s leaves.
Determinate
Growth stopped by development of terminal flower buds. A dwarf/bush variety which sets fruit in a concentrated period.
Indeterminate
Growth continuing indefinitely when leaf buds form at the tip of the growth. These varieties need to be staked and continue to set fruit until frost.
Heirloom
A variety that is older than two generations (50 years). Can also be referred to as “Heritage” and is always an open pollinated variety selected for garden performance (flavour, long harvest).
Hybrid
A plant resulting from a cross between two parent plants to give a genetically superior plant i.e. improved disease resistance, better vigour, more uniform harvest. Normally, seed saved from hybrids does not grow true to type.
F1 - The first generation of such a cross. Denoted in the name of the variety.
F2 - The second generation of such a cross etc.
Open Pollinated
Natural cross between plants of the same variety. Refers to non-hybrid seeds or plants.
NPK
Basic nutrient needs of plants:
Nitrogen
(N) - for green growth, healthy soil and microbial activity
Phosphorus
(P) - for flower, fruit and seed production; vigorous roots and disease resistance
Potassium
(K) - essential for building plant tissue (important for young plants) and the
quality and size of fruit.
pH A measurement for the acidity/alkalinity of soil, needed for nutrientavailability and microbial activity.
Scarification
Thepractice of scratching or notching the seed coat to assist germination. Usually
applies to hard coated seed.
Stratification
Chilling seeds to promote germination by breaking dormancy.
Viability
The ability of seeds to germinate.
Vigour
The speed and the strength
of the plant to establish well.
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