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    Liquorice question

    Hello Alys.

    I've just ordered a two-year old liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra). Can you tell me how best to care for it please? I intend to grow it in a pot to prevent it from becoming invasive.

    Thanks
    MBE
    Last edited by mrbadexample; 18-05-2011, 08:33 PM.
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    I remember chewing on wild liquorice whilst walking in the French Alps. There it grew in full sun in rich, rocky soils (so the roots were very forked). It’s going to need full sun, rich, but very free draining soil and regular watering. If you want to harvest decent roots it’s going to need to be in a very deep pot (the plant can grow as large as 1.5 metres tall). You harvest in winter taking the top portion of the root and the rest should re-grow. It’s a good bee plant, too.

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      Thank you.
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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