Succeeds in ordinary garden soil in full sun.

Fresh juicy shoots. No more details are given. Seed - raw. The parched seed is ground into a powder then made into cakes and eaten without being cooked. If this species is like most other members of the family Boraginaceae, the seed is likely to ripen over a period of time and individual seeds fall from the plant when they are ripe. This will make harvesting any quantity of seed very fiddly and time consuming.

Seed - sow late spring in situ.

Dry open slopes and flats, often in disturbed soil