Salad burnet gives a nutty cucumber flavor to salads, vinegars, cream cheese and tomato juice. Grows to 1-foot tall with deeply toothed leaflets and thimble-shaped crimson flowerheads. Easy from seed. In China, it is known as "Di-yu" and is used in dressing wounds. Perennial. Packet is 1 gram, about 80-100 seeds.
How to Plant SALAD BURNET SeedsSow in cell packs or flats, press seed into the soil and barely cover. Needs light to germinate. Kept at 60° F., germination averages 14-21 days. Transplant into the garden after all danger of frost. Or, direct sow into prepared seed beds, one seed per inch. Thin to 12-18 inches apart.
