Sowing months
Oct–Nov
Sunlight
Four hours of sun
Water
Twice a week
Mature size
Trailing 1 m
First harvest
Flowers 55 days
Family
Tropaeolaceae
Where it grows
balcony, terrace
Good for
beauty, food
Sow in
winter
Care
Poor soil gives more flowers; rich soil gives only leaves.
Edible flowers and leaves, and a magnet that pulls aphids off your vegetables.
Growing it
Poor soil gives more flowers; rich soil gives only leaves.
What it is for
Salad flowers; a deliberate aphid trap crop.