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Learn how to grow love-in-a-mist from seed! This airy plant, also known as nigella, adds unique blooms and foliage to any cottage garden.
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Love-in-a-Mist seeds
The black, aromatic seeds are often used as a flavoring in Indian and Middle Eastern cooking. You can use nigella in the kitchen as a substitute for black sesame seed, caraway seed, and cumin.
planting seeds
For direct sowing, plant the seeds in early spring as soon as the soil is workable. Nigella is frost-hardy.
Planting Love-in-a-Mist in the Garden
Consider planting nigella in empty spaces in flower beds, as a bedding plant or in containers.
Caring for Love-in-a-Mist
Thin self-sown seedlings in the garden to prevent overcrowding of plants and deadhead spent flowers before the seed pods ripen unless you want to collect nigella seeds.
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