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Monday, April 2, 2012

Featured plant: French Tarragon


FRENCH TARRAGON, perennial culinary herb, fresh is best, one plant

FRENCH TARRAGON, perennial culinary  herb, fresh is best, one plant
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This is a pre-spring order. I live in upstate NY and plants will be dug and shipped whenever the snow is off the ground and not frozen. May be April or May. Offered is 1 plant.

French Tarragon (Artemesia dracunculus var. sativa ) Perennial. Z3-9. This is one of my favorite culinary herbs. It's flavor melds well with fish and eggs. This is one herb, like chives, that does not dry well so should be made into herb vinegar or used fresh. It prefers well drained soil, full sun, water when dry. It should be divided every 3 years as the roots grow in on themselves and eventually it will stunt the plant. This is the true French variety. It will not propagate from seed. Any seed sold as tarragon would be the inferior Russian tarragon.

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