在家庭花园里养老金的生长非常容易。因为它在花园中令人满意地生长，并且每年都会在花园里通过自种播种。
Borage is actually grown for it’s edible leaves in some parts of Europe, and also grown commercially for ‘borage seed oil’ extracted from it’s seeds.
Borage (Borago officinalis) is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae, and also known as Starflower, Bee Bread, and Bee Bush.
泻湖原产于地中海地区，在许多其他地区都归化。
泻湖植物长到2-3.3英尺，在茎和叶上都是毛茸茸的或毛茸茸的。
花通常是蓝色的，尽管有时也观察到白色和粉红色的花朵。虽然白花是一种不同类型的奴隶植物。
传统上为烹饪和药用培养了泻湖。但是今天，它在商业上主要是作为油籽。它要么用作新鲜蔬菜or a dried herb.
As a fresh vegetable, borage is often used in salads or as a garnish (it has a黄瓜-like taste). Uses of borage as a fresh vegetable is popular and common in Germany, and also used in many other regions of Europe.
虽然蜜饯花有甜蜜的蜂蜜味，并且经常用于装饰甜点和鸡尾酒。
However growing borage can provide you with cucumber-flavored leaves which you can use in may different ways. Actually, all the parts of the borage plant are flavorful and have culinary or medicinal uses (except the roots).
目录
如何开始生长泻湖
生长的泻湖非常容易，这些植物需要相对较少的护理和管理。尽管它不像罗勒或百里香那样普遍。对于烹饪花园来说，这可能是一个独特的补充。
Borage plants actually grow quickly as an annual but will colonize a corner of the garden by self-seeding and reappearing year after year.
However, here we are describing more information about growing borage in your home garden from planting, caring to harvesting.
休奇品种
Borago officinalis可能是休科的唯一品种。您会发现这些公司仅提供这种品种。
购买种子
As the borage plants are not too common, so you will probably not be able to source the seeds easily in your local market. The easy option is to order the seeds online.
如今，有许多在线商店提供的公司。因此，您可以在线订购种子。
生长泻湖的最佳时间
Borage is an annual plant that can be grown throughout the year. The plants have an indeterminate growth habit which may lead to prolific spreading.
在温带气候下，这些植物的开花季节相对较长（从六月到9月）。但是，在温和的气候下，这些植物将在一年中的大部分时间里不断开花。
准备土壤
在所有类型的土壤中，休科植物生长良好。您只需要直至土壤并添加平均有机物。确保土壤排水良好，并可以同时保留水分。
泻湖植物在充满阳光的阳光下生长到部分阴影。但是，在充满阳光下生长的养老金植物将为您提供最多的花和最库存的植物。
但是，要先准备土壤直到先准备，然后在其中添加足够的有机材料。添加浓郁的老年肥料或自制有机堆肥非常好。
Planting Seeds
准备土壤后，您可以将种子直接播种到土壤中。在最后一个霜冻日期之后，您可以在花园里播种种子。将种子排成一排将有益于额外的关怀。
因此，在准备好的土壤中标记几行，相距约1英尺。然后将种子植入大约1/4至1/2英寸深，相距2-3英寸。种子后浇水。
Caring for the Borage Plants
Growing borage plants is very easy and they require very less care, and you actually need to have a very little gardening knowledge.
Although taking additional care will help to better growth of the plants. Here we are describing more about the caring steps for growing borage plants in home garden.
施肥：Borage plants grow well in average soil. So, you don’t have to provide additional fertilizers for growing borage in home garden.
浇水：生长浮雕植物需要保持土壤不断潮湿。因此，请保持植物充分浇水。
Mulching:Mulching helps to retain moisture into the soil. Use organic materials for mulching such as dry leaves, grass clippings, straw, hay or compost. Mulching will also help to prevent most of the weeds from the garden.
稀疏：一旦幼苗高约6英寸，幼苗将幼苗相距约1英尺。
害虫和疾病
Borage plants are virtually free from all types of pests and diseases. Nothing wants to get too close to the scratchy borage leaves. This is an excellent advantage of growing borage in home garden.
Harvesting
You can start to harvest the leaves and flowers as needed. Young leaves are considered good. Because the older leaves will get prickly, making harvesting anything on the plant a bit unpleasant.
Both leaves and flowers of the borage plants are edible. The flowers do add a bit of flavor and a great deal of color to salads, soups, open face sandwiches, beverages and ice cubes. And the leaves may be picked at any time and used fresh.
干叶也被使用，几乎没有特征性的味道。因此，您可以在收获后使用植物。
You can also leave the flowers in the plants if you are hosting a蜜蜂在您的家庭花园里的殖民地。休奇花会产生极好的味道蜂蜜。
These are the common steps for growing borage organically in home garden. Hope you have enjoyed this guide! Don’t forget to share your stories. Happygardening
