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Lovage Herb Seed — cut stems leaf detail

Lovage Herb Seed — lovage leaf stem detail

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Levisticum officinale

90Days to maturity

A seed worth growing

Lovage Herb Seed

Item #HSC-HRB-022-PKT

A celery-flavored specialty herb.

Tender young lovage leaves have a strong celery flavor touched with anise; try them in spring salads or with potatoes, rice, soup and chicken. The thick, smooth, hollow stems and the roots are also edible, and peeled young stems are good raw.

If you let it bloom, the flowers feed bees, hoverflies, lacewings, ladybugs and small beneficial wasps and flies.

Ready to harvest about 90 days from sowing. Open-pollinated.

Specs

Packet: 200 seeds
Average 10,100 seeds per oz.

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Quick Facts

Latin Name: Levisticum officinale
Days To Maturity: 90 days
Life Cycle: Perennial
Hybrid Status: Open Pollinated
Product Features

Growing times vary with weather, soil and local conditions.

Growing guide

From seed to harvest

Start 6–8 weeks ahead

Or sow in early fall.

Give it room

18–24" apart; plants grow tall.

Moist, fertile soil

Sun or part shade.

Branches from year two

Leaves in year one.

Growing Information

Days to germination

About 10–14 days.

Starting indoors

Recommended. Start 6–8 weeks ahead of your last spring frost, sowing thickly about 1/4" deep in flats. Pot up at four true leaves, and plant out in spring or early summer, 18–24" apart, with rows 3' apart.

Direct sowing

Sow in spring, or in early fall to come up the next spring, 1–2 seeds to the inch in rows 3' apart. Thin to 6" at 3–4" tall, and again the next spring to 18–24". Plants die back in winter and return quickly in early spring.

Plant spacing

18–24".

Soil

Moist, fertile soil is best, but it grows in most soils.

Light

Best in full sun; tolerates part shade.

Harvest

Pick leaves in the first year once plants are established; from the second year you can cut whole branches.

Hardiness

Zones 4–8.

Plant height

48–78".

Packet

200 seeds.

Seeds per oz.

About 10,100 on average.

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