Flower / Cool season
Blue Boy Bachelor's Button
Early-season flower rows and pollinator edges.
Blue edible petals used as garnish.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 65
- Germination temperature
- 55-70F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 8 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 8 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Can reseed; deadhead if volunteers are unwanted. Moderate water during establishment. Average, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water during establishment.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Can reseed; deadhead if volunteers are unwanted.
- cool-season
- cut-flowers
- pollinators
- easy
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