One of my favourite flowers! I think I read somewhere that the nectar stores of borage refill faster than most other flowering plants (minutes rather than days) which is why the bees like them so much.
Excellent video! Thanks for showing through the growth of the plant. Most people just plop them in the soil and nothing more for their videos. I'm growing this for the first time, so I found your video helpful.
Yum! I have used them as companion plants for strawberries but never knew they were edible! FILLING my straw bale garden with them this year because I’m studying companion planting and SO many plants benefit from them. Can’t wait. Thanks for all of this good info about starting them.
Persians have been using them for many centuries to make one of the main staple medicinal teas, it’s an excellent calming nervine for anxiety, often taken before bed and great for sickness / colds too
Hello sweet dear Lee .. so happy seeing you looking well.. thank you for sharing and yes these flowers are amazing ! Please take care and keep safe 👍🏻🥰🌹
Thanks man. Just learned about Borage not long ago, and we're gonna see how well they do in their own element here in central Pennsylvania. Got some growing in pots as well, and even the seedlings seem very hardy.
love the videos been watching for a while. I was worried when you didn't upload for a while glad your doing good hope everything is going great for you. thank you for the content and advice and help for me growing my garden
This flower is very beautiful purple color , your bucket watering is lovely that you made by yourself from milk bottle , thanks for sharing to us such education video
I LOVE borage!💙💜 They are one of the most beautiful flowers I have seen.🤗💚 Great information you provided! I really want to try some now. I also love your edible flowers playlist.
Brilliant thank you Lee - I will try these next year - looking forward to the borage video as I have some that has self seeded both in my garden & allotment.
Some of my borage grew to 40+ cm then after it flowered the leaves started yellowing and dying. Now i know it was either spider mites or aphids. Great vid
Thankyou for your great video I have just planted my borage inthe garden and hopefully it will thrive well as it was dome grown and protected until I put it in the garden! I have put tulle and a garden guard on it to try deter the pests but unfortunately they seem to get through the barriers! wish me luck!!Jan from Vancouver Island BC Canada
Is such a enjoy to listen to you with all that good and direct information in a super rich content with lots and lots of valuable information. Now I definitely will give a try to the blue borage flowers. Everything for the bees! It will look gorgeous between the white callistemon and cosmos flowers or the yellow of the rudbeckias and pinkish zinnias, it will be amazing!
That reminds me, I have some borage seeds that I could germinate! Thanks for the reminder! I wonder if you could use your awesome platform to promote the benefits of using peat free compost please! I’ve been asking all the zero waste influencers too.
I do indeed. This ones an older video but most of my newer videos include peat free. If you check out my "One Garden Brighton" video I was very excited to see them using peat free. :)
Hi! I love your channel, thank you for sharing your great knowledgeable videos...they truly help me as a new gardener. I do have a question for you...I've been gathering rain water to use for watering my little herb and veggie pot grown small greenhouse garden and I noticed the water is a yellowish-green color (much like the water in this video you were using to water the seedlings)...is this normal? Thank for any advice/info. You are AWESOME and hope your health is doing better.
We had a borage plant in our herb border last year but I'm not sure it survived. Round about the same time a weird plant started growing next to it and it's now grown huge, early investigation seem to suggest this is some kind of ragwort (though it's not flowering so I'm not certain it is). As a side note I hope UA-cam stopped shadowbanning you, I somehow missed this video when it posted 2 weeks ago but is now showing up on my feed so fingers crossed.
I have a question, so i sprouted a couple of seads and they have a very small sprout omcoming out. Do i put them in pots in the sun or let them sprout more?
Bought my 1st pack of seeds today as I read they refill their nectar the fastest and I just love providing for our pollinator friends. Keep em crossed for me! One question, thoughts on need for stratification first - yay or nay? Thanks in advance 😊
In the video you said they are perennial but they are not they just self seed right? Because everything I've read said they are annuals? But at 11:00 you said 'here is a plant from last year' so now im confused. I've grown them from seed for the first time ever this year, they have just started flowering, they are excellent. I didnt realise how big they can get. I too grew mine in those exact yogurt pots :). Mine are riddled with aphids which I've just been smushing with my fingers or brushing off with a paint brush, so I'm going to try the water / eco soap spray trick.
I'm not sure where "everywhere" is but the 2nd, 3rd and 5th search on Google states that some varieties are perennial. I've also grown them as perennials and if they self seeded it wouldn't just be one plant in the same place each year. 😉
Just be aware you'll have thousands of them come up every year after, and putting them in containers does not keep them contained. Kinda wish I had known that before I grew them. The bees do love them.
They are only produced in my garden to serve as a pollinator for the bees, not for my own consumption.😊 When I grow them, they grow tall and the stems are thick, but I have no idea how to support them.
Hey brother! Would you happen to know why the one you're trimming grew upwards but the other ones are flat? I have seven I planted this year and I've never planted them before so I have no experience, but I've been puzzled at the very flat nature these plants seem to have. All of mine are laying flat on the ground and none of them have put up a stem or any flowers yet. I think I planted them around May 15th, so they're about 14 inches across from one leaf tip to the other, but they're not growing in height at all, they just keep rolling out new leaves from the center. So I was just curious why in your video you have one that seems to be growing tall and the other ones are flat like mine.
Damn I think I repotted too early. I love them while they were seedlings. I’m wondering if I can grow them as micro greens they smell so good like cucumbers.
Are you sure they are perennial? Not at all by the way. Actually, I like your videos, but this one…. Borage grows alone, even where you do not want. I just thrown few seeds in my garden, then for a few years I need to fight against its invasive nature
talk about bs, this was in no way a "Complete Step by Step Guide". this was just advertising every other video you've filmed. what trash just rephrasing the wiki poorly.
One of my favourite flowers! I think I read somewhere that the nectar stores of borage refill faster than most other flowering plants (minutes rather than days) which is why the bees like them so much.
Awesome! I recently bought Borage and 4/4 seeds have germinated. Never grown it before so this was a timely video!!
Excellent video! Thanks for showing through the growth of the plant. Most people just plop them in the soil and nothing more for their videos. I'm growing this for the first time, so I found your video helpful.
They taste amazing also. Love the sweet flowers.
Yum! I have used them as companion plants for strawberries but never knew they were edible! FILLING my straw bale garden with them this year because I’m studying companion planting and SO many plants benefit from them. Can’t wait. Thanks for all of this good info about starting them.
Persians have been using them for many centuries to make one of the main staple medicinal teas, it’s an excellent calming nervine for anxiety, often taken before bed and great for sickness / colds too
Plenty of great info in this video! Thanks, Lee.
I’m here for that smile 😀, everything I learned about wonderful Borage is a bonus 🥰
Ha. I can’t believe I just purchased Borage seeds and here you are covering growing it. Wonderful.
Thanks for sharing iv planted some this year I'll have flowers in late summer
Hello sweet dear Lee .. so happy seeing you looking well.. thank you for sharing and yes these flowers are amazing ! Please take care and keep safe 👍🏻🥰🌹
WOW! I love your little watering bottle! Such a cool way to recycle!
I love watching your video’s you always make it really informative and helpful for a newbie gardener like me thanks 👍
Agree with you he is informative on gardening work , happy gardening to you
I started three plants from seed this year..they are doing great!
This is a new plant I've wanted to try for a while now. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks man. Just learned about Borage not long ago, and we're gonna see how well they do in their own element here in central Pennsylvania. Got some growing in pots as well, and even the seedlings seem very hardy.
I like Borage. It’s long lasting plant
love the videos been watching for a while. I was worried when you didn't upload for a while glad your doing good hope everything is going great for you. thank you for the content and advice and help for me growing my garden
This flower is very beautiful purple color , your bucket watering is lovely that you made by yourself from milk bottle , thanks for sharing to us such education video
One of my favorite herbs and most beautiful. Thank you for sharing. 👍
Thank you so much for this great Borage video!! 👍👍👍
I would love to see a garden tour!
I LOVE borage!💙💜 They are one of the most beautiful flowers I have seen.🤗💚 Great information you provided! I really want to try some now. I also love your edible flowers playlist.
This channel is so so wonderful! It’s so good to see you, as always 🤗
Thank you for a wonderful video. I love Borage!
I started four this year! Thank you!
I just sowed 4 seeds 😊
Brilliant thank you Lee - I will try these next year - looking forward to the borage video as I have some that has self seeded both in my garden & allotment.
I planted some years ago, never had to plant it again, they are like hollyhocks or sweet peas
Your video is amazing. PACKED with information and joy. I'll be coming back to watch more!
Beautiful! Well illustrated video and thanks for sharing!
New subbie.. thanks for the info..
I'm in 9a coastal Florida area..old gardener coming back after years away from the soil!!
You have to do this only once in your lifetime, they will spread like weeds.
Indeed they do. I definitely recommend growing them in containers. :)
Thank you so much Lee .. lovely video 🌿
Thanks for the new video, Lee
It gives good amounts of flowers.
good to see you!! thanks for the borage 411.
Really enjoying your videos 👌
I grew this from seed recently to attract pollinators for my bottle gourds.👌
i’m growing some borage as well! they kind of look like cucumbers lol!
Love your enthusiasm and always a relaxing and interesting watch x
Some of my borage grew to 40+ cm then after it flowered the leaves started yellowing and dying. Now i know it was either spider mites or aphids. Great vid
Thanks for this video.
Thankyou for your great video I have just planted my borage inthe garden and hopefully it will thrive well as it was dome grown and protected until I put it in the garden! I have put tulle and a garden guard on it to try deter the pests but unfortunately they seem to get through the barriers! wish me luck!!Jan from Vancouver Island BC Canada
Wonderful content; thank you.
An awesome vid - thanks so much
I love Borage
Cool tips bro, and I may do that next year. God bless.
this year
next year you will wish you did it this year do it now
@@Aryescent Do I still have time to do it this year.. :)
@@GNGResurrected yes
Beautiful 🤩
Is such a enjoy to listen to you with all that good and direct information in a super rich content with lots and lots of valuable information. Now I definitely will give a try to the blue borage flowers. Everything for the bees! It will look gorgeous between the white callistemon and cosmos flowers or the yellow of the rudbeckias and pinkish zinnias, it will be amazing!
Thank You Brother!
I've just subscribed, great video thank you
Sangat bermanfaat cara menanam sayurannya
Semoga menjadi berkat buat semua orang
You decorate cakes? I'm impressed.
Its Swedish name ”Gurkört” means cucumber herb :)
Thank you for the info. I just read online they taste similar to cucumbers. I just planted 4 seeds today. I can't wait for them to grow 😊
Love my borage
That reminds me, I have some borage seeds that I could germinate! Thanks for the reminder!
I wonder if you could use your awesome platform to promote the benefits of using peat free compost please! I’ve been asking all the zero waste influencers too.
I do indeed. This ones an older video but most of my newer videos include peat free. If you check out my "One Garden Brighton" video I was very excited to see them using peat free. :)
Hi! I love your channel, thank you for sharing your great knowledgeable videos...they truly help me as a new gardener. I do have a question for you...I've been gathering rain water to use for watering my little herb and veggie pot grown small greenhouse garden and I noticed the water is a yellowish-green color (much like the water in this video you were using to water the seedlings)...is this normal? Thank for any advice/info. You are AWESOME and hope your health is doing better.
Great! Thank you!
Awesome,
Groundhogs love Borage also.
in algeria is a wild plant
Another pest attracting plant are the nasturtiums. They were absolutely smothered in aphids didn't seem to affect them tho
I have loads around my pound and around the plot, they get HUGE
borage stans INCOMING jk lol i love borage too its one of my best producers 😅
We had a borage plant in our herb border last year but I'm not sure it survived. Round about the same time a weird plant started growing next to it and it's now grown huge, early investigation seem to suggest this is some kind of ragwort (though it's not flowering so I'm not certain it is).
As a side note I hope UA-cam stopped shadowbanning you, I somehow missed this video when it posted 2 weeks ago but is now showing up on my feed so fingers crossed.
I have a question, so i sprouted a couple of seads and they have a very small sprout omcoming out. Do i put them in pots in the sun or let them sprout more?
What type of fertilizer do you recommend for getting the phosphorus?
Can you plant seeds to germinate on windowsill in may?
Can i grow they in tropical climate
how long did this take?
Bought my 1st pack of seeds today as I read they refill their nectar the fastest and I just love providing for our pollinator friends. Keep em crossed for me! One question, thoughts on need for stratification first - yay or nay? Thanks in advance 😊
No need! They germinate extremely easily.
In the video you said they are perennial but they are not they just self seed right? Because everything I've read said they are annuals? But at 11:00 you said 'here is a plant from last year' so now im confused.
I've grown them from seed for the first time ever this year, they have just started flowering, they are excellent. I didnt realise how big they can get. I too grew mine in those exact yogurt pots :). Mine are riddled with aphids which I've just been smushing with my fingers or brushing off with a paint brush, so I'm going to try the water / eco soap spray trick.
I'm not sure where "everywhere" is but the 2nd, 3rd and 5th search on Google states that some varieties are perennial. I've also grown them as perennials and if they self seeded it wouldn't just be one plant in the same place each year. 😉
How do you deadhead borage please? Where to cut? Thank you
My first time growing borage and my flowers are pink? Is this some natural variant or do you think they’re lacking something?
Wow
Just be aware you'll have thousands of them come up every year after, and putting them in containers does not keep them contained. Kinda wish I had known that before I grew them. The bees do love them.
They are only produced in my garden to serve as a pollinator for the bees, not for my own consumption.😊 When I grow them, they grow tall and the stems are thick, but I have no idea how to support them.
Hi beautiful
Where can i get them on England
Hey brother! Would you happen to know why the one you're trimming grew upwards but the other ones are flat? I have seven I planted this year and I've never planted them before so I have no experience, but I've been puzzled at the very flat nature these plants seem to have. All of mine are laying flat on the ground and none of them have put up a stem or any flowers yet. I think I planted them around May 15th, so they're about 14 inches across from one leaf tip to the other, but they're not growing in height at all, they just keep rolling out new leaves from the center. So I was just curious why in your video you have one that seems to be growing tall and the other ones are flat like mine.
Damn I think I repotted too early. I love them while they were seedlings. I’m wondering if I can grow them as micro greens they smell so good like cucumbers.
Any idea why my plants are too tall and spindly? I'm trying the seeds deeper in the soil.
Some nasty black eggs under my borage leaves. Spraying with Safer's Insecticide Soap and then mushing them!
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Borage is not perennial but it is efficient self seeding plant
mình nghĩ trồng chậu to vì cây borage không thích thay chậu mà?
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you should sell seeds and plant equipment
My dad's got greenfly on his pepper
Organic soapy water should fix that.
@@ProjectDiaries cheers mate
@@MrGMawson2438 you're welcome mate.
Are you sure they are perennial? Not at all by the way. Actually, I like your videos, but this one…. Borage grows alone, even where you do not want. I just thrown few seeds in my garden, then for a few years I need to fight against its invasive nature
I think you just answered your own question. Grow then in containers as I suggested and dead head them before they go to seed.
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I thought it was called borage with 2 'a's, not borage said like you're also saying porridge.
p.s. I've subbed :-)
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talk about bs, this was in no way a "Complete Step by Step Guide". this was just advertising every other video you've filmed. what trash just rephrasing the wiki poorly.
how did you make that bottle with the shower spout on the top?
will it be easy to plant this in a guerrilla gardening project out in the wild?
Wow