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  1. Alain

    This aromatic plant is very loved and appreciated in Europe, especially in Germany. We can also meet him in the polling stations, although infrequently. He is also called beloved, pipe maker, fence. In the old days, a potion was prepared from it, with which girls fascinated guys ...

    And the fence because it grows really tall - at the end of summer its two-meter thick hollow stem with umbrellas of yellowish-white flowers sticks out. Belongs to the celery family and resembles its famous relative in taste and smell. Some gardeners even mistakenly consider it to be celery. Somehow they brought me a heel of young plants a lovage with the assurance that this is celery. But I had already grown celery, so I immediately felt the difference.

    No, I liked the lovage much more than celery. In early spring, when I cook soups from fresh herbs - nettles, dumplings, sorrel, chives, parsley - several young, reddish-green, not blooming lovage leaves, plucked together with a long juicy petiole, give them a unique taste and aroma. Each time I pick only young leaves, then new ones grow in their place and are suitable for food during April-June. At the edges I leave a few leaves for the needs of the plant itself, such leaves quickly coarsen and are no longer suitable for food. I put a lovage in salads and in the second dishes. The leaves contain B vitamins, ascorbic acid, carotene, vitamin R.

    And in folk medicine, roots are used: they can not be excavated, starting from the second year of growth. They treat their heart, kidneys, problems of the gastrointestinal tract, dropsy.
    I sow lovage with seeds before winter, because they sprout a month after planting - you will already forget what you have sown. Sown in the autumn germinate in April. In the first year, a rosette of leaves appears; in the second year, the stem grows in summer and seeds appear. Lovage transplant withstands steadfastly, and even an adult plant.
    In general, it is resistant to any adverse weather conditions, whether it is heavy rains, frosts, drought.

    I planted the heels of plants throughout the garden - along the edges of the beds, in the midst of mint and along the path. In the unbelievable heat of 2010, some plants may have gotten some splashes of water, but I definitely didn’t water the mint. By the end of summer, the lovage had turned yellow, and I cut the leaves and stems. And next spring, all the bushes grew as if nothing had happened, the drought did them no harm.

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