{"id":3344,"date":"2012-12-01T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T09:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2012-12-01T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T16:04:38","slug":"lovage-a-tall-herb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/lovage-a-tall-herb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovage a tall Perennial Herb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LOVAGE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What is Lovage<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Lovage is a long lived herbaceous perennial herb that grows up to 4-6 feet tall.
\nThe leaves are a grey green and architectural in appearance.
\nLovage flowers yellow in an ‘Umbel’ and the seeds that follow can also be eaten or used in bread or as a spice.<\/p>\n

Uses for Lovage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lovage has a distinct aroma similar to celery but with Indian spice notes.
\n All parts of Lovage can be eaten and the stems can be used as you would celery.
\nLovage is made into a wine liqueur and in soups, stews or as a roast vegetable.
\nLovage is believed to have medicinal properties for sore throats.<\/p>\n

Cropping Lovage<\/strong><\/p>\n

A healthy Lovage (Levisticum officinale) plant can spread in a clump 3 feet wide and such a plant needs space perhaps at the back of a border. One plant can provide all the leaves and stems a family would need. If leaves are the main requirement give the plant the ‘Chelsea Chop’ and cut down flowering stems before they blossom so encouraging new leafy growth.<\/p>\n

Growing Lovage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grow Lovage from seed or root divisions from an existing plant.\u00c2\u00a0
\nThey like plenty of water and space to grow.
\nLovage prefers a sunny position.<\/p>\n

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\"Lovage<\/a>
\nPhoto credits
\nLOVAGE by Fool-On-The-Hill CC BY-NC 2.0<\/em>
\nLovage – Liebst\u00c3\u00b6ckel by yashima CC BY-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lovage is one of those old world herbs that you may expect to find in grannies cottage garden. Certainly she is likely to have one of the numerous recipes that can be made from Lovage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","tag-medicinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}