RUE Common

Species: Rue
Latin name: Ruta Graveolens L.
Other usual name: Herb of Grace - Garden Rue - Herbygrass - German Rue - Ruda - fr. Rue Fétide - Herbe de la Rue - Rue de Jardins - Herbe de Grâce - Herbe à la Belle Fille - Péganium - Rue Odorante - Rue Puante - de. Weinkraut
Variety: Rue Officinale
Family: Rutacées
Origin: South Europe

Rue Common : Hardy perennial, herb cultivated for its aromatic and medicinal leaves. The dark green leaves are alternate, and bluish, their flavour is bitter. To use in kitchen to season sauces and meat. In médicine uses for colic, to improve appetite and to promote the onset of menstruations and uteral contractions. The gardeners often use the rue like repulsive for insects and plant louses, because the plant has a very strong and unpleasant smell.

Seed sowing: March to June
Collect street: March to June the following year
Height: The Rue reaches on average 90 cm to 1 m
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Sowing in-depth of 2 mm in a seedbed, pack slightly. When the seedlings make about 5 cm in height transplant in place by leaving 35 cm between the seedlings. You can collect the young leaves from Mars to June the following year.

Sowing distance: 35 cm
Minimal temperature of sowing: 18 to 25 °C
Seed germination: 25 to 30 days
Nutritional value: Kcal to the 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 1 gr +/- 550 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.