LOVAGE, organic seed

Levisticum officinale

Leaves can be used in salads, soups, to make broths. Roots can be eaten as a vegetable.  Its flavor and smell can be described as a mix of  celery and parsley but with a higher intensity of both of those flavors. Survives winter even in very cold climates. Tender young growth has the best flavour.

Panting conditions: Full sun in cool climates, partial shade where summers are very hot.

Grow aside with potatoes, peppers and beans. Needs eich soil that retains moisture.

Spacing: 1 plant needs 60x60cm

 Start seeds indoors and set out at about the time of your last frost.  Lovage will reach its mature size in about three years.