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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Lovage - was cutting celery
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:00:18 -0500

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:16:40 -0600, you wrote:

>Don't know about the taste, but cutting celery IS actually celery - apium
>graveolens, I think.

Yes, _Apium graveolens secalinum_.

>And, it is biennial? Blooming in the second year? I
>THINK so. Definitely not perennial in our zone(6).

Yes, biennial.

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And Vivian said...

>How does cutting celery compare to lovage? I would describe the taste of my
>lovage the same way you all are describing the cutting celery (very strong
>celery taste, but it looks like overgrown parsley). The lovage, though, has
>the benefit of growing back every year!
>Vivian
>

I can't compare them as I haven't grown lovage yet (but hope
to this coming summer).

Pat
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