I think as I just wanted to do a quick video for you on Boredge, which is also known as Starflower Barago of Fissianales Boredge is an awesome companion plant within the garden as you can see here It is just drawing in all kinds of life if I keep the camera still here for just a second you could just see I can probably count 15 or 20 different bees flying around on here right now as well as some wasps and things of that sort but it draws in all kinds of life Boredge is an annual herb Edible to leave themselves some of these smaller leaves like these little guys here make great additions to salad Some of the bigger ones which you get down in here You kind of get into more of what is used for Greens like a collar green or anything like that as it become a little bit older They get better. It tastes and smell is very similar to cucumber which is The leaves themselves are actually also high in Gamma lino linnic acid which is GLA It's an omega-6 fatty acid which is good for joint health boosts immunity and Promotes healthy skin things of that sort it's also high in lots of vitamins like vitamin C vitamin A iron zinc magnesium things of that sort The flowers themselves as I said before these are it's actually called the star Star flower It's one of the things it's known as Because of the five points on the flowers you can see there Point coming out another one here this little bee on this one But But they the flowers themselves are edible Also have kind of a cucumbery taste The flowers themselves actually hit one of the things like fine kind of interesting is they're one of the very few Edible blue substances naturally occurring blue substances on earth. I mean of course you think of things like blueberries there's Like the blue potato and Blue nister shim It's in a very short short list of plants and Borge is also an excellent companion pint for plants like tomatoes spinach Brassicas that like broccoli cauliflower and even various legumes and beans and things of that sort Your nitrogen fixing plants one of the biggest benefits for porridge besides obviously being edible is that it attracts pollinators thing as you can see is just booming with life bees and butterflies have flown in here a couple times since I've started this video constantly bringing in all kinds of pollinators to The garden of which they've been spread into the other plants and things that sort of around the garden which is nice Borge is It's quite a sprawling plant. I mean as you can see I can get down in here I'll show you this trunk on this thing Size comparison to my hand I mean here's the trunk on this thing you can see person in my hand that thing is huge So the Borge itself can be quite the the space hog in a garden, but it's also very very beneficial Being a space hog is one of the things you can cut it back right now I have a growing because I have a lot of my still winter based brassica plants and stuff like that that are growing and see broccoli over here some broccoli underneath that but But I plan on cutting this back quite dramatically so it can get some of my new plants coming in here pretty soon Great thing about that is you can eat it Some people think it's a disadvantage to have such a sprawling plant in your garden because it takes up so much room But I find it to be quite opposite because it was being edible and a beneficial The cuttings that you cut off of it even in themselves can be used as a green mulch instead of going and buying mulch The story just take the cuttings off and drop them right down into your into your bed there It's getting nutrients back into the soil and you're also preventing direct sunlight from hitting the soil which is drying out the soil and Wind and things of that nature coming in and blowing away and dehydrating your soil being that it is An attractor of good beneficial Insects and a detractor of bad insects it comes quite the Beneficial little plant to have in your garden and of course also being edible I find boards to be quite a beneficial little plant to have in the garden. I hope you do too