French Tarragon Plant
Levels up dressings and sauces
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
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The highlights
- Bold, peppery flavour with liquorice notes
- Low maintenance and suitable for cuttings
- Your ticket to dreamy béarnaise sauce
- Harvest from May through to October
Description
- An attractive perennial herb with narrow, dark green leaves and a distinctive peppery, sweet flavour with notes of aniseed
- Perfect for adding flavour to sauces, oils and vinegars, or chopping finely and adding to omelettes and salads
- Best grown in pots so that you can bring it in over winter, or in well drained raised beds
- Highly prized in French cuisine
- Plant out at any time in spring or summer and harvest stems as you need them
- Premium herb plants grown on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- It's easy to take cuttings from your plant and create new ones
- Easy to grow and care for - just plant in a sunny spot and protect from frost
What to expect
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How to grow
How to grow
Excellent pest and disease resistance
Generally pest and disease free - can sometimes be susceptible to rust or powdery mildew
Water regularly during dry spells
Water well in dry spells - after an initial watering when planted, it shouldn't be needed in autumn and winter
Full sun
Plant in a sunny spot where the plants will receive 6-8 hours of sunlight per day.
Any fertile, well-drained soil
Herb plants prefer well drained, loamy soils. If your soil is heavy or sandy, mix in some perlite or fine horticultural grit when planting, to improve drainage.
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South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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The herb garden
French tarragon
When harvesting tarragon, the leaves are where you'll find the flavour! Chop them up finely, or use whole in a salad or a creme fraiche. Jess likes to use the leaves to make her very own homegrown herb oil, which she then uses to make herby mayonnaise. Delicious.
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