Surface-sow
The fine seed needs light — press onto the surface and keep moist. Sow spring or fall, indoors or direct.
The skin-oil herb is an easy biennial — a leafy rosette the first year, then a tall bloom. Patient, but simple from seed.
The fine seed needs light — press onto the surface and keep moist. Sow spring or fall, indoors or direct.
Full sun and ordinary, well-drained soil. Undemanding once it's up — a true easy grower.
Year one is a leafy rosette; the tall stalk of evening-opening flowers comes in year two.
Let the seed pods dry on the plant, then collect — that tiny seed is where the prized oil comes from.
Evening primrose is one of ten medicinal herbs worth growing — Nicole Apelian's Medicinal Garden Kit gives you all ten as non-GMO seeds with her full grow-and-remedy guide.
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