Herbs · Perennial
Salad burnet
Rosaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 30 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–9b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 8 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- partial shadeAlso okay:full sun
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:sandyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Salad burnet is one of the 7 herbs in Frankfurt's green sauce. Perennial, tastes cucumber-like. Harvest March-October; young leaves are milder.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage