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Salad Burnet
Salad Burnet
How to sow salad burnet: Direct seed. If planting indoors, harden off before transplanting seedlings outside.
Sun requirement for salad burnet: Plant in Full Sun
Salad Burnet is an herbaceous plant in the Rosaceae (Rose) family that is used in salads, dressings, beverages, and added to sandwiches. The plant has an upright stem, deeply toothed leaves, and thimble-shaped crimson flowers. Leaves have a light, nutty cucumber flavor. The youngest leaves are used, since older leaves can be more bitter. Remove flowers and cut plants back regularly to keep a steady supply of fresh young leaves. Salad Burnet is a perennial in USDA Hardiness zones 4-8, and can be grown as a cool-season annual outside of those zones. It is drought-tolerant and can be grown in containers.
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Salad burnet facts
Lifespan
Height × spread
40cm × 30cmRow Spacing
45cmCrop cycle
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Optimal light
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For salad burnet, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 4°C and a shortest growing cycle of 90 days at its best temperature, about 1215 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your salad burnet will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Who's planted salad burnet
- piranha Front Garden · East Coast, Central...
- Lemony Garden · Reading England
- auwillia Vegetable Garden plot 1 · N Alaska, Portland,...
- neotoma Container Garden · Silver Spring, MD
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 90 to 120 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Sanguisorba minor Scop.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Rosales Rosaceae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -25 °C |
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | heavy, medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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