Notes
Miss Jekyll. Direct-sow. Cut flowers ½ open or pods green. Airy. Hates transplanting.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Miss Jekyll
Nigella · Nigella damascena
DTM
70 d
92 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
4
4 in in-row
Density
12
plants / bed-ft
Yield
10
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$6.60
$0.75 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Airy texture · 16 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- Do not pinch
- Harvest stage
- ½ open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 3 / plant · 10 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 7 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 70 d field-to-cut
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 70°F (opt 60°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 4 in
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 12
- Plants / 50 ft
- 600
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 70 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 92 d
- Multicut
- yes · 3 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 10
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.35 / $0.75
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.85 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 66.2
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.9 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.1 / 0.7 lb
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-05-13
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 285 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 706 seeds · 600 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $154.00 / $330.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel