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Sage , Salvia officinalis , is an implausibly utile aromatic herbaceous plant that can be used in your kitchen and as a familiar industrial plant in your garden in a chain of different way .

While sage can be spring up from seed or from thinning , it is most commonly buy as a ready - grown flora from a garden centre or plant nursery .

a sage plant growing in a pot being held in front of a garden outside

If you have purchased or new propagated a sage works , you will need to have it off how to plant it out once you get it home .

Luckily , this guide explains everything you need to bang …

When To Plant Salvia

The best time to plant salvia ( sage ) in your garden is between March and May .

However , if you plan on farm it indoors in a container , you could plant it at any time into a more lasting plenty than the one in which it come .

Where To Plant

Sage can be imbed in a range of dissimilar location , as long as it gets full Sunday and enjoys passably damp , fertile yet costless - draining conditions .

You might regard growing sage :

If you are growing sage in a container , then this should be filled with peat - free soil - based compost .

sage plant with green leaves and stems after being freshly planted out

If you are growing sage in a rear bed or in the land , assure that it is in a sheltered bit in full sunlight with protective covering from strong winds .

In most expanse , the plant will ask to be offered someprotection over the coldest part of the year , so bear this in mind when opine about where to grow it .

How To Plant Out Sage

select and purchase a sage plant life or grow your own from seed .

Prepare the container and develop medium , or the field where the salvia is to grow by adding a top dressing of homemade compost or other constituent matter .

Dig a gob magnanimous enough to suit the roots of the plant or place a little peat - free soil - free-base compost in the base of your container .

a handful of compost being held over the bag from which it has come from

Take the plant from its existing peck and place it into the hole or new container .

“ If a plant is tummy - obligate , I always lightly razz the roots out to ensure that the root start to research the surrounding soil rather than continue   to grow as a tight mass , ” says Colin Skelly , a Horticultural Consultant .

“ For herbs grown out of doors , I always   add together a couple of handfuls of gritstone into the planting hole just to increase the drain around the start root zone . ”

a sage plant that has been removed from its previous pot being placed into a planting hole in a rectangular container

Fill in the soil or growing medium around the plant , firming it gently into spot .

irrigate it in well , but make certain that there is very good drainage and that excess water can run out forth freely .

This simple mental process should allow you to enjoy sage that you will be able-bodied to harvest in the summer of the same year .

gardener’s hand firming in the soil around a sage plant growing in a container

salvia is evergreen and leave-taking can be picked at any time through the twelvemonth , but I opine that the flavour is good in summer .