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Rebekah Carmichael
I want to plant burdock this year and don’t want it to get out of hand. I don’t ever intend to let it get past the fall or spring as I want to harvest the root and do Not want it to go to seed.
Does is come back from the roots? If so, I might plant it in a trash can deep container so make harvest easier and to be sure I can get all the roots. If it does not come back from the roots I might be more inclined to plant it in the ground.
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Annett
Burdock is a biennial. So it will come back the second year by the root.
If you don’t want it to go to seed, you can simply cut off the branches where seeds begin to grow. If you are going to harvest the root, you want to harvest it late in the fall of its first year or in the early spring of it’s second year, before the plant grows upward making a stalk.
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Alright, I understand that. Thank you. But when I’m harvesting the root and I leave a little in the ground will it come up from that? Like Comfrey, if you leave a little behind will it come back, will Burdock do the same?
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Greg Boggs
If it does happen to come back up, just pull it and don’t let it go to seed and it will be done
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Zoey Meissner
Burdock is not like comfrey, which continues to grow after you cut it down. Being a biennial, burdock just needs to have the residual plant (after harvesting the root) cut at or just below the soil line and as stated above, not allowed to go to seed.
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Okay thank you! Yes, I do not want it to go to seed!!!!!
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