Flower / Shoulder season
Jewel Mix Nasturtium
Container edges, edible flower beds, and pollinator color.
Peppery edible leaves and flowers.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 55
- Germination temperature
- 55-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 10 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- on last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
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?
- 10 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.5 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?
- Rich fertilizer can reduce flowering. Moderate water; tolerates leaner soil. Well-drained soil; too much fertility favors leaves over flowers.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Moderate water; tolerates leaner soil.
- Soil
- Well-drained soil; too much fertility favors leaves over flowers.
- Watch
- Rich fertilizer can reduce flowering.
- edible-flowers
- containers
- pollinators
- trailing
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