[Sca-cooks] Borage

[Sharon Palmer]

>Ranvaig commented:
><<< I used to deadhead the plants and not let the seeds ripen.  Still got
>a few new plants but not nearly as bad as other weeds I had to fight.
>It helped that I had it planted in an herb bed that was well away
>from the vegetables. >>>
>
>deadhead the plants? What does this mean? Play 
>loud music until the plants wither up and die? 
>:-)
>
>I know they used to say things about what would 
>happen to the hard rock generation, but that 
>didn't seem to affect fertilityŠ :-)

Like Shoshanah said, it means cutting off the 
flowers before the seed ripens, which tends to 
encourage plants to make more flowers too.

>
>These comments do sound like the warnings I heard on this list about mint.
>

Mint spreads from the roots, borage only if it can set seed.