Echter Salbei / Heilsalbei
Variety
Echter Salbei / Heilsalbei
Approved Data
created by Marielena 🌱 at 21.12.2020
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
Harvest
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1ST YEAR
FOLLOWING YEARS
Description
Sage tastes intensely spicy and slightly bitter. It is considered anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic, antiperspirant, slightly antihypertensive and blood purifying. Perennial. The leaves are also suitable dried as a tea. Insect friendly.
Non hybrid
Frostproof
Growing tips
Light germinator. Germination after 14-25 days at 18-24°C. In case of early sowing from April, protect with fleece if necessary. In case of preplanting, harden off before planting out (from May). Prune in late fall or spring. Soil rich in clay and lime and a sheltered location are advantageous. Harvest before flowering. In the 1st year only the shoot tips. Protect from frost in winter. Sensitive to waterlogging. In the 1st year harvest from August.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Dry
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
Low
Plant distance
30 cm
Row spacing
30 cm
Seeding depth
0.5 cm
Companion Plants
Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard
Aubergine / Eggplant
Broccoli
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Carrots
Cauliflower
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Collard greens
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Common marigold
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Lavender
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Oregano
Pak Choi
Rapeseed
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Rosemary
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Savory
Stem herbs
Strawberry
Thyme
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Antagonistic Plants
Basil
Bean ((Scarlet) runner bean)
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Hyacinth bean / Lablab-bean)
Bean (Lima Bean)
Chives
Chives
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dill
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Garlic
Garlic chives
Gooseberry
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Leeks
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lovage
Mint
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Ornamental pumpkin
Parsley
Pumpkin / Squash
Root parsley
Soybean
Wild garlic
Diseases
Root Rot
Downy mildew
Powdery mildews
Pests
Aphids
Cicadas
