Family:  Nightshade (Solanacea)

Hardy to Zones 4 to 8, often grown as an annual, 90 days to flowers

Annual, overwintering annual or biennial native to Europe, North Africa and Asia.  One of the most fascinating and insidious plants one can grow from seed.  The flowers are deeply attractive.  Traditional usage (TWM): external use for pain relief.  Source of scopalamine.  Internal use is toxic.  Plant prefers sun and dry to mesic, nitrogen-rich soils, growing in regular garden soil or abandoned pastures and corrals.  Strew the seed on the surface of soil or in pots in the fall or early spring and tamp in securely. Keep evenly moist until germination.  Individuate seedlings to their own pots and grow on until sufficiently sized to plant to the garden.  It is also very reasonable, in fact advisable, to direct-seed henbane in a good seedbed.  Germination requires 20 to 30 days.  Protect seedlings from cucumber beetles and other Solanacea-specific pests that tend to relish these plants and their kin.  Fall-planted seed will make a rosette that overwinters, followed by production of a large plant early the following year.  Spring-planted seed will flower later in the year.  Henbane is a long day plant and prefers to grow most rapidly and flower most gloriously prior to summer solstice.  That is why it is more productive to cultivate biennially.  This is the same way the plant self-seeds in habitat. Thin or transplant to one foot apart.

Packet contains 50 seeds
1 g contains ~1,200 seeds
5 g contains ~6,000 seeds
Certified Organically Grown

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