Lovage «Dude»
One of the best spicy-tasting and medicinal plants. Lovage is unpretentious to growing conditions, always winters well. The height of the stem reaches 1-2 m.
It grows in one place for 6-8 years, growing with rhizomes. As a spice, you can use leaves, stems, roots, fruits.
All its parts are equally fragrant and useful, slightly reminiscent of celery in taste and smell. Decoctions from it are recommended as a sedative for neuralgia, heart disease.
Lovage has a diuretic and expectorant effect, improves digestion.
Sowing: in spring in open ground, seedlings appear in about a month. In autumn - before winter (at the end of October), then seedlings will appear in May.
To obtain earlier greenery - in early April for seedlings, after soaking the seeds for 1-2 days in warm water (40 ° C) and then slightly drying, they are sown to a depth of 1-2 cm.
The optimum temperature for germination is 20-25°C. Planted in a permanent place in early May, leaving 50-60 cm between plants. Prefers slightly shaded areas.
Care: after each cutting of greens, the row spacings are loosened and fertilizing with complex mineral fertilizer, but at least 2 times a year. Weeding.
Cleaning: greens are cut in the first year - July-September, the second year - starting in May. shoots are cut at a height of 7-9 cm from the ground. At least 2 cuts are made per season. The roots are harvested from the second year in October, cleaned, washed and dried.
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