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Five Edible Flowers to Grow in Your Garden

  • By Sow True Seed
26May
Edible flower varieties available from Sow True Seed, open pollinated, heirloom, and USDA organic.

Edible flowers are the best! They look good, they keep the pollinators happy AND you can eat them. Check out this selection of edible flowers to get you started:

Nasturtium

Both the flowers and leaves are edible with a peppery watercress flavor. There are a good range of varieties to grow, but they are all tasty! Use the flowers to garnish a savory meal or throw all of the aerial parts of the plant into a salad, or even better, a pesto. 

 

Nasturtium are delicious edible flowers, and great for attracting pollinators.

Dwarf Jewel Nasturtium 

Borage

Gorgeous blue and purple flowers are edible in salads and make a delicious, soothing tea. High end restaurants freeze individual flowers in ice cubes for fancy cocktails! 

 

Borage has edible flowers, USDA organic, non GMO, and open pollinated variety available at Sow True Seed Asheville NC.

Johnny Jump Up Viola

These tiny edible beauties will be the first to bloom in your garden, and have been known to poke their pretty faces through snow. Make a beautiful syrup for cocktails or cakes or garnish with them! They're also delicious when candied. 

 

Viola, Johnny Jump has edible flowers, non GMO, open pollinated variety available at Sow True Seed Asheville NC.

 

Squash Blossoms

A little know secret is that these delicate flowers can be eaten baked, fried, stuffed, in soup, salad or any way you can think of! There are lots of squash plants to choose from, so grow some squash and eat some flowers! 

 

Squash flowers as edible, put them in soup, or saute them, non GMO, open pollinated, heirloom, and USDA organic varieties available at Sow True Seed Asheville NC.

 

Bee Balm

Bee balm can add a spicy flavor to a salad or steeped as a delicious summer tea. The pollinators really love this one too! 

 

Bee Balm has beautiful flowers that are edible, and attract pollinators, non GMO, untreated, and open pollinated variety available at Sow True Seed Asheville NC.

 

Written by Sow True Seed’s Farmer-Garden Expert, Chloe Smith