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Harvesting Borage Seeds

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Borage is a beautiful herb with edible flowers. Learn how to harvest borage seeds, to plant in the garden next season.

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Borage flowers are fantastic to use in culinary creations and botanical baking projects.

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Saving seeds from your borage plants will allow you to economically grow borage, saving on the cost of seeds.

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Borage flowers will develop seed pods with seeds, along the stem where the flowers once were.

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The borage seeds will mature, and then fall from the plant to the ground, when they are ripe.

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The seeds don’t stay long in the seed pod, and are sometimes hard to catch for collection.

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As a result the borage plant easily self seeds, producing new volunteer plants from year to year.

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Read our full article to learn the methods for collecting borage seeds, before they escape to the ground!