SEEDS OF TARRAGON - ARTEMISIA DRACUNCULUS
Culinary and medicinal plant ideal for pots and kitchen gardens. It is used as a spice in cooking because it tastes both spicy and sweet in dressings, to create original and surprising mustard creams and vinegars. From its flowers and leaves cataplams are made to relieve teeth aches. When it is prepared as a herbal tea, it helps digestion and relieves arthrosis.
Perennial up to 1m with dark-green long and pointed leaves. The flowers are yellow, small and grow in spikes.
Prefers fertile, permeable, and cool soils under temperate temperatures.
Sowing at temperatures of 18ºC/22ºC. Mix the seed with thin sand to obtain a more homogeneous sowing.
Calendar
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| Average germination (%) | 70 |
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| Climate Zone | Temperate areas, Temperate continental |
| Flower colour | Yellow |
| Germination (in days) | 8-15 |
| Hardiness | Hardy (tolerates temperatures down to -5ºC), No drought resistant |
| Life cycle | Perennial |
| Plant use | Culinary, Edges, Herbs garden, Medicinal, Riverbanks, Spices |
| Seeds per gram | 5.000 |
| Soil - Moisture | Fresh |
| Soil - Ph | Acid |
| Soil - Type | Fertile, Loam, Potting mix |
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Easter 2026
This week we will only be shipping orders on Monday 30 March to ensure that orders arrive before bank holidays.
We will resume deliveries from Tuesday 7 April 2026.
The nursery will be open until Thursday 2 april. If you would like to collect your order or visit us we would be delighted to welecome you from 8 am to 2 pm.
Happy Easter !