Two unusual herbs for your herb garden
Grow lovage herb and sorrel herb to give your recipes very special flavors. These herbs make tisanes and herbal remedies too.
Sorrel and Lovage . Special herbs for your herb garden
Grow these unusual herbs for herb recipes and herbal remedies
Here are two of my favorite herbs, sorrel and lovage. I use these herbs every day for herb recipes, salads, herbal teas and tisanes. These herbs grow in my herb garden outside my kitchen door, and what makes them extra special is the fact that you can't usually find these fresh herbs in your food store.
Both sorrel and lovage herbs are easy to grow in a herb garden or in a pot in your yard.
Herbs have been grown as long as man has been alive. Herbal remedies were used centuries ago before modern medicine, and many people still use traditional herbal medicine and alternative herbal remedies .
Here we'll take a look at my 2 special herbs, and see why they might be candidates for a place in your own herb garden. You don't have a herb garden? Well , now's the time to make one, even if it's just a few tubs or pots outside your door or on a windowsill.
Lovage
The Lovage herb from my herb garden
Lovage at White Moss House
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Lovage
How to use the lovage herb
Lovage is a herb that has a similar flavor to celery. The lovage herb can be grown easily from seed, and once lovage is established in your herb garden it will grow happily for years.
Use lovage in stews and casseroles for an interesting flavor.
Make a lovage soup. Leek and lovage soup or potato and lovage soup make a great combination, and the bright green color and fresh herb taste are winners.
Make a lovage tea, or tisane, or lovage cordial. This is said to aid digestion.
Use lovage chopped and mixed into cream cheese for a herb spread, or make a lovage dip, or use lovage to stuff a chicken or baked potato. Chop lovage leaves into a summer salad.
Lovage Recipes and more lovage information
Find out more about the lovage herb
How to grow and use the lovage herb- recipes and tips from the experts.If you think you might like to try growing lovage, you can buy seeds from Amazon. Did you realize that Amazon has a great range of garden seeds? Me neither, but they do. With the huge turnover of products at Amazon these seeds should be fresh and just waiting to shoot up in your garden.
You can buy lovage seeds from Amazon.
Wouldn't you love to grow lovage? Amazon stocks a choice of lovage seeds.
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Here's a beautiful picture of lovage seed heads
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Sorrel
How to grow and use sorrel
Sorrel grows very easily in most herb gardens, but is rarely seen in your food store. Fresh sorrel leaves have an acid, slightly bitter taste, so you can use them in cooking in place of lemon. For instance, a sorrel sauce is great with fish, or stuffed into a barbecue chicken.
Sorrel soup is great, or you can use young sorrel leaves in a salad.
Sorrel has long been used for herbal remedies, and it's acidic nature has led sorrel to be used for cleansing the digestive system.
You can grow sorrel from seeds, and once sorrel starts to grow in your herb garden, you'll need to keep trimming the tops to stop it from bolting. I strongly recommend sorrel to you- it's a great, rather underrated herb.
Baby sorrel
Recognise the sorrel herb?
Sorrel at White Moss House, Grasmere.
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Find out more about the sorrel herb
How to grow and use the sorrel herb.
Tips on growing and using the sorrel herb- find recipes from top chefs.You can buy your sorrel seeds from Amazon. I find that even in my good local garden stores sorrel seeds are not available. Amazon is an excellent source of unusual seeds.
Order your sorrel seeds from Amazon.
Now is the time to plan your herb garden . Amazon stocks a good choice of sorrel seeds.
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Notes from a Lake District Garden
Lovage and sorrel grow in my garden in England's lake District. Here's my blog.
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Have you used these undervalued herbs? Please leave me your thoughts.
(Why do I always have to be so silly?)