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Dandelion 'Vert de Montmagny' Seeds

Large, tender leaves with a pleasant chicory-like bitterness

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Key benefits

  • Large, tender leaves with a pleasant chicory-like bitterness
  • French market variety in the Slow Food Ark of Taste
  • Eat young leaves raw or wilt older ones with garlic
  • Hardy perennial that regrows after cutting
  • Packet of about 100 open-pollinated seeds

Vert de Montmagny is the dandelion bred for the kitchen: a French market variety with far bigger, more tender leaves than the wild plant. Selected near Paris in the 1850s and now listed in the Slow Food Ark of Taste, this Taraxacum officinale forms a generous rosette of deep green leaves with a well developed white heart. The flavour is pleasantly bitter, in the same family as chicory and endive. Use young leaves raw in salads with a sharp dressing, or wilt older ones with garlic and olive oil. Cover plants for a week before picking to blanch the leaves paler and milder.

Sowing and growing

  • Sow outdoors April to July, in rows or a large container
  • Depth: 0.5 cm
  • Germination: 1 to 3 weeks
  • Thin seedlings to 15 to 20 cm apart
  • Position: full sun or light shade, in deep, well-drained soil
  • Height: about 30 cm; spread 20 cm
  • Harvest: pick leaves from about 10 to 12 weeks; cut plants back and they regrow
  • Lifecycle: hardy perennial; remove flower heads before they seed to keep plants leafy and tidy

What you receive: a packet of about 100 open-pollinated seeds from Piccolo Seeds, with growing instructions on the back.

Grow it alongside Good King Henry and bladder campion from our Foraging Wild Herbs seed collection, or explore more unusual edibles and the full seed range.

How to use
  1. Sow outdoors April to July, 0.5 cm deep, in rows or a large container.
  2. Thin seedlings to 15 to 20 cm apart, in full sun or light shade.
  3. Pick leaves from about 10 to 12 weeks and cut plants back to regrow.
  4. Remove flower heads before they seed to keep plants leafy.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Why grow dandelion from seed?

Vert de Montmagny is a cultivated selection with larger, more tender leaves than wild dandelions. Growing your own also means clean leaves from a known spot, picked young when they taste best.

How do I make dandelion leaves less bitter?

Pick young leaves in spring and autumn, when the flavour is gentlest. To blanch, cover the plant with an upturned pot or a board for about a week before harvesting; the leaves turn pale and mild.

Will dandelions spread around my garden?

They only spread by seed, so pick off flower heads before they turn into clocks. Kept leafy, plants stay in one place and crop for several years.

What is your returns policy?

Changed your mind? You can return pots, gifts, accessories and other non-plant items. Email hello@growtropicals.com with your order number within 14 days of delivery, then send the item back within 14 days of telling us. You pay the return postage.

Items must come back unused and in their original condition. If an item has been used, we may reduce your refund by the value it has lost, and for used items this can be the full price.

Live plants cannot be returned because you have changed your mind, but they are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee.

If something arrives damaged, faulty or wrong, email us with your order number and photos and we will put it right at no cost to you. Full details are in our returns policy.

When will my order arrive and how much is shipping?

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Delivery is free on orders over £60 with Economy, over £100 with Standard and over £150 with Express. Below that, the charge depends on your basket total and is always shown at checkout before you pay. The full price list is in our shipping policy.

Orders without plants are dispatched Monday to Friday. If your order also includes plants, it goes out Monday to Thursday so the plants are not left in the courier network over the weekend. Delivery can take longer at busy times such as Black Friday and Christmas.

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