«Dude» - Organic Lovage Seeds

One of the best spice and flavoring and medicinal plant. Lovage is unpretentious to growing conditions, always winters well. The stem height reaches 1-2 m.

It grows in one place for 6-8 years, growing with rhizomes. Leaves, stems, roots, fruits can be used as a spice.

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, shoots appear in about a month. In autumn - before winter (at the end of October), then seedlings will appear in May.

To get earlier greens - in early April for seedlings, after soaking the seeds for 1-2 days in warm water (40 ° C) and then slightly drying them, sow to a depth of 1-2 cm.

The optimum temperature for germination is 20-25 ° C. They are planted in a permanent place at the beginning of May, leaving 50-60 cm between plants. Prefers slightly shaded areas.

Care: after each cutting of greenery, the row spacings are loosened and fertilized with complex mineral fertilizer, but at least 2 times a year. Weeding.

Harvesting: 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.