Mullein

Mullein is a biennial plant that bears a very large, slender spike of yellow flowers. Another pollinator favourite, mullein has plenty of flowers to feed from.

Plants have large flat, fuzzy leaves that are soft and attractive, sticking out among plants whose leaves are without a fuzzy or woolly coating.

Mullein has been used as a health product for centuries, though careful research and consideration should be taken if this plant is intended to be consumed.

Instructions

Scatter seeds or start indoors in spring. If started indoors, grow plants until its first sets of true leaves appear, and harden off to the garden and plant in late spring.

Continue growing plants and feed once a year with all purpose fertilizer. 

Plants will produce only leaves in its first season, followed by the flower spike in its next.

Collecting seed from mullein is easy - let the flower spike mature to where the capsules are brown and firm. Collect capsules and split them open onto a tray, then sift.

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