Post by alkapuler on Feb 18, 2009 20:35:32 GMT -5
aka black lovage from the distinctive black, curved seeds and the carrot-celery-parsley-dill fragrance of the foliage
-i can't remember when we got the seeds or from where they came from, but probably a dozen years ago from a botanical garden in France, a few plants came up and then disappeared into the active process of diversity gardening that commands our attention each year
-during the past several years, they have become the most successful early, prolific, edible, green growing plant in our early spring garden
-they give early green for mixing with compost from the kitchen
-they have somewhat deep tap roots that bring up minerals for deeper reaches of the garden beds, just like gobo
-interesting to find an adaptivar from Europe that thrives so well in the PNW
-earth chestnut, Bunium bulbocastaneum, does well here also but not like Alexander's
-seems like a good candidate for a green drink fertilizer to feed the later brassicas, alliums, cucurbits, solanums, grasses
-i can't remember when we got the seeds or from where they came from, but probably a dozen years ago from a botanical garden in France, a few plants came up and then disappeared into the active process of diversity gardening that commands our attention each year
-during the past several years, they have become the most successful early, prolific, edible, green growing plant in our early spring garden
-they give early green for mixing with compost from the kitchen
-they have somewhat deep tap roots that bring up minerals for deeper reaches of the garden beds, just like gobo
-interesting to find an adaptivar from Europe that thrives so well in the PNW
-earth chestnut, Bunium bulbocastaneum, does well here also but not like Alexander's
-seems like a good candidate for a green drink fertilizer to feed the later brassicas, alliums, cucurbits, solanums, grasses
