Description

Sage (Salvia officinalis) is a bold, flavorful herb prized for its digestive benefits, especially when paired with high-fat foods like pork, wild game, and cheese. Often used in stuffing, it also enhances vegetables, potatoes, soups, and stews. With its gray-green foliage and edible purple-blue flowers that attract pollinators, sage provides both culinary and ornamental value. It grows well in full sun to part shade and is drought-tolerant, making it a perfect plant for gardens or containers. Hardy in USDA zones 4-8, it’s typically grown as a perennial.

This packet sows up to 16 feet. 25 seeds.

Variety Info:

Botanical Name: Salvia officinalis
Family: Lamiaceae
Native: Southeastern Europe
Hardiness: Perennial in USDA zones 4–8
Plant Dimensions: 18″–36″ tall and wide
Variety Information: Grey-green foliage with pebbly texture on a semi-woody shrub. Purple-blue edible flowers bloom in whorls on spikes above the foliage.
Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Attributes: Attracts Pollinators, Deer Resistant, Good for Containers

Sowing Info:

When to Sow Outside: 1 to 2 weeks after your average last frost date, when soil temperature is at least 50°F.
When to Start Inside: RECOMMENDED. 6 to 8 weeks before your average last frost date.
Days to Emerge: 7–21 days
Seed Depth: ¼”
Seed Spacing: A group of 3 seeds every 12″–18″
Row Spacing: 18″
Thinning: When 2″ tall, thin to 1 every 12″–18″

Growing Info:

Harvesting: You may start harvesting leaves when plants are at least 6″ tall. When plants are about 12″ tall, stems can be cut just as flowers are opening to be dried.