Growing Non-GMO Cleome Wild Spider Flower Seeds

Choose a sunny location in your garden and enrich the soil. Wild Spider Flower are seeds that have wildflower hardiness to them and are most popularly sown outdoors directly after the frost. For earliest spring blooms, begin seeds indoors 6 weeks prior and harden them off to a sunny place in the garden. Transplant outdoors once your soil temperature is at least 60 F. Wild Spider Flower cleomes can be kept indoors with plenty of sunlight. Do not overwater because cleome will be susceptible to powdery mildew, leaf spots, and rust in overly saturated and poorly drained gardens.

Start the seeds indoors and transplant them once they have true leaves and good roots. Optionally, directly sow these seeds into the garden bed if soil temperatures are warm enough. Cleome blooms from May-October in warm climates and will die off at the first frost. There is no need to fertilize unless the soil is particularly barren. Cut back spent blooms unless you want to collect seed.

Cleome Wild Spider Flower in the Flower Garden

Cleome (Wild Spider Flower) is the perfect spring-blooming background plant for your garden bed. Throughout the growing season, it displays its delicate white blooms. It can also be cut for bouquets and arrangements. It has many medicinal and culinary uses, as described below. Use Spider Flower in pollinator gardens. It is attractive to bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies, who love to drink its sweet nectar.

Harvesting Cleome Wild Spider Flower

Harvest the leaves and flowers of this variety once the husks turn brown and the fruit falls. Watch out for thorns on the stems and bottoms of the leaves. If you save the seed pods, you can reseed your spider flower bed!

About Cleome Wild Spider Flower Garden Seeds

Spider flower leaves are commonly eaten boiled, whether in soups, stews, or as a side dish. They have a peppery and lightly bitter taste. They are often eaten with Thai chili paste. Another great option for spider flower leaves is pickling. Additionally, since the flavor is similar to mustard greens, try substituting it in other recipes for a change of pace.

This plant is not poisonous to animals or humans. Morning doves sometimes eat the seeds. While most varieties of Cleome are grown for their ornamental flowers, this delightful plant is considered a green vegetable with numerous health benefits.

The Spider Flower Cleome flower has 1-inch wide blooms of gorgeous florets.

There are many uses for this beautiful plant: When the leaves have matured, they are harvested, boiled, and eaten as greens. The seeds are edible and ground into flour. Spider flower petals (Flowers of the Genus Cleome are also commonly used as a paint or dye.

Cleome gynandra, also known as Shona cabbage, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat’s whiskers, chinsaga, maman, and stinkweed. It is native to Africa but has since been naturalized throughout most of Asia.

Tips From Our Gardeners

”I’ve heard that soaking the bitter leaves in milk can reduce the bitterness of them. The leaves are high in beta-carotene, vitamin C, Calcium, and folic acid; so, it is definitely worth incorporating into one’s diet!"

- Lara Wadsworth, True Leaf Market Writer

Cleome Wild Spider Flower Seeds Per Package:

• 2 g packet - Approximately 1,000 Seeds
• 1 oz - Approximately 13,900 Seeds
• 4 oz - Approximately 55,600 Seeds
• 1 lb - Approximately 222,400 Seeds

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