Burnet
Burnet: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Salad burnet, Sanguisorba minor, is a herbaceous perennial in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is valued as a culinary herb for its young leaves, whose flavour recalls cucumber. Its appeal combines a subtle use in food with finely textured foliage and an unusual flowering form. It can therefore belong in a herb garden, vegetable garden or border that brings together useful and ornamental plants.The foliage forms a rosette close to the ground. Each leaf consists of small leaflets arranged on either side of a central stalk, with a terminal leaflet at the tip. Their toothed edges and rounded to oval shape create a recognisable pattern. This arrangement differs from a simple leaf, even though each leaflet resembles a small complete leaf. The detailed foliage contributes to the plant’s light outline rather than forming the broad, solid surface seen in some other herbs.Upright stems rise above the rosette and carry small,…
