Russian TARRAGON

Species: Tarragon
Latin name: Artemisia Dracunculus L.
Other usual name: False Tarragon - Dragon Wormwood - Dragon Sagwort
Variety: Russian Tarragon
Family: Astéraceae
Origin: Russia

Tarragon: Hardy perennial shrub, aromatic and medicinal with white flowers on a thin stem, foliage is long oval and dark green of color, and got a slightly bitter taste and no fragrance. Russian Tarragon is less aromatized than French tarragon, but it's resisting our winters, even protected French tarragon, will have only one chance out of 50 to resist our winters. Used as culinary spice fresh or dried, in fact only the young branches are used in dishes. Also used in the form of herb tea. Harvest progressively of your needs preferably in the morning in order to keep the maximum of flavor.

Seed sowing: Mars to April
Harvest of tarragon: Approximately 1 year after sowing
Height: Tarragon reaches on average 80 cm
Exposure: Sunny, Middle shade

Sowing instructions: Sowing from September to April directly in open ground in  5 mm depth, pack slightly, when seedlings are strong enough to handle you can thin out to leave 30 cm between the plants. First harvest approximately 1 year after sowing. Very good container plant.

Sowing distance: 30 cm by 30 cm
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 10 °C
Seed germination: 2 months
Nutritional value: Kcal to 100 gr

Net weight of seeds: 0.3 gr +/- 1550 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.