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Burdock Takinogawa Long

• Botanical Name: Arctium lappa

Highly nutritious root vegetable and one of the most valued herbal medicines. Peeled leaf stalks are parboiled and used as a substitute for Cardoon. Young roots can be peeled and used in salads like radishes whilst older roots are stir-fried, sautéed, roasted or pickled. Mild bittersweet flavour. Rich in vitamins and minerals especially iron and used medicinally as a diuretic and blood cleanser. Grows rapidly with huge rhubarb-type leaves. Well dug soil will result in roots up to 1m long. Easy to grow.

Heirloom; 5-15 degrees; 10-15 days; 4cm apart; Cooler Temps; 1.2; Direct Sow; 100 seeds; Gourmet.