Celery And Lovage

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Differences between celery and lovage. Some plants are similar to each other, like twin people. But botanists manage to find differences in them, referring to different genera of the same family, giving the plants different names. There are two such "twins" in the Umbrella family. Let's try to understand their similarities and differences

Lovage

The only kind - Medicinal lovage

People have noticed the love power of the plant for a long time, giving it different names that have the same essence. For such names as amateurs, love-grass, love potion, additional explanations are not needed. Interestingly, having many names, the genus Lovage has a single plant species called Medicinal Lovage.

Attribute of Ukrainian huts

There was a time when lovage bushes always grew near every Ukrainian hut. Fragrant fresh leaves of the plant were added in summer to salads, vegetable dishes, marinades, used for salting vegetables, cooking various flour dishes. The leaves were dried for future use to flavor the listed dishes in winter.

Not only leaves were used, but also the roots, from which jam was made, oriental sweets - candied fruits - were made.

The pungent smell and spicy, slightly bitter taste of lovage, even in small quantities, gives the pickles and pickles a mushroom aroma.

Healing properties

Headache is relieved by applying rubbed leaves to painful points on the head. Decoctions, tinctures, medicinal tea are prepared from the leaves. The leaves are ground into powder, which is used for healing traditional medicine.

The main healer of lovage is its thick roots and rhizome, which are dug up in autumn or early spring. It is believed that during the growing season, before the flowering of the plant, the roots are poisonous, so during this period only leaves should be used.

Decoctions and infusions from the roots became famous as healing agents for diseases of the lungs, stomach, heart. But for people with diseased kidneys and pregnant women, lovage is contraindicated even as a spicy seasoning.

Growing and caring

Lovage is a rather unpretentious plant. He has no special requirements for the soil, illumination of the planting site. It is very frost-resistant.

Caring for it is traditional, including weeding, loosening the soil after watering and rains, and periodic fertilizing.

Propagate lovage by sowing seeds, shoots or dividing bushes. It grows rapidly, reaching one and a half meters in height the next year after planting, every year it becomes taller, wider and more powerful.

Celery

Celery is a relative of lovage.

Today, lovage is inferior in popularity to celery, although it is its close relative. Celery is not just classified as a spicy plant, but is considered a spicy vegetable.

Are lovage and celery the same thing?

Differences between celery and lovage.

Celery is very similar in appearance and taste to lovage. But celery leaves are lighter and softer, and their taste is less spicy and pungent than lovage, whose leaves are even bitter.

Celery is more demanding to care for.

In culture, there are three varieties of celery: leaf, petiolate and root.

Pantry of useful substances

Celery in all its parts accumulates carotene, amino acids, sugar. The accumulated nutrients have a beneficial effect on the digestive system, stimulating the appetite; put in order the nerves, giving a full sleep; fight obesity.

Growing and caring

Lovage and celery differ in the way they are grown

Celery has a long growing season and is therefore usually grown through seedlings. Seeds are sown 2, 5-3 months before planting in open ground. Unlike cold-resistant lovage, celery is afraid of frost, and therefore it is released into free air with the arrival of stable heat. Often celery is planted along the edges of the ridges or as a sealant for cucumbers.

Plant care is standard.

There are small differences when growing stalked celery. To make the stalks grow tender, they resort to the "whitening" technique. To do this, the lower part of the petioles is covered from light with burlap, paper or straw.