Seed Savers Green Culinary Sage

Classic culinary herb for flavoring meat, cheese, and bean dishes. Good for laying on the grill and flavoring meat with its smoke. Attractive grey-green shrubby plant with beautiful mauve flowers.

• Conventional
• Perennial in zones 5-10
• Plants grow up to 2 feet tall
• Grey-green leaves with mauve flowers
• Savory, slightly peppery flavor
• 250 seeds

This variety works for:

• Fresh eating
• Dried leaves

Sage is a common herb in rich dishes featuring meat or pasta. Try adding sage to clarified butter and tossing with pasta or fry the leaves gently in butter to add as a garnish for soups. You can use thinly sliced sage leaves for marinades for pork, lamb, or poultry and mix it with ground meat for sausages.

Sage can also be place around the edges of a grill or under a piece of meat to impart its flavor to the smoke while you are cooking.

Instructions - Sow seeds indoors on surface of soil. Can also be directly sown outdoors two weeks after the last spring frost. Prefers rich, moist, well- drained soil. Divide every 3-4 years.

• Start Indoors: 6-8 weeks before last frost
• Germination: 14-21 Days
• Plant Outdoors: 12” Apart
• Light: Full Sun