| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Treacodactyl |
Liquorice rootsI remember chewing Liquorice roots when I was a lad (queue comments of "we were so poor we couldn't afford sweets and had to make do with chewing roots").Anyone else remember them? Would it be possible to grow the plants in a greenhouse and dry your own roots? |
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| cab |
Re: Liquorice roots
It's not impossible to grow it here, and I've seen it wild in Yorkshire, so there's no reason why you oughtn't be able to cultivate it. Dunno what it's like to grow, though. |
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| Andy B |
Re: Liquorice roots
What does the plant look like and where could you get one? |
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| sean |
There's one in Pontefract apparently, the last remnant of a once great industry. | ||
| cab |
Nickys Nursery is your friend:
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/herbl.htm#H098 To see what it looks like, do a google image search for Glycyrrhiza glabra. |
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| Treacodactyl |
Thanks Cab, don't let Bugs see this thread. 
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| Andy B |
Cheers! |
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| bagpuss |
I have no idea how you would grow it but I used to love liquorice root, that and coltsfoot rock both brilliant childhood sweets
Liquorice all the fun of chewing a pencil but with flavour too! |
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| cab |
Potentially useful info:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf2616.pdf |
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| Nanny |
liquoriceinteresting sitesi have seen liquorice root for sale on norwich market ..... i aways wondered whether you can grow it from the roo but it doesn't say you can on the site, it only talks about growing from seed................ so who is going to have a go then? it looks like a lovely plant |
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| Blue Peter |
I think that it's also supposed to be one of those plants that bring up nutrients from way down due to the large tap root,
Peter. |
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| tahir |
Just one thing, remember Liquorice raises blood pressure. | ||
| Andy B |
If we stop eating all the things that are bad for us we will all starve to death. 
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| tahir |
The ultimate in downsizing 
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| hardworkinghippy |
A couple of years a go,I wanted to try growing it too.
This week I've got lots of new shoots poking up all over the place around an area of 50cms from the mother plant (who I think got scraped to death by our hens  )
I'm dying to dig up a few roots and try them, when's the best time to do that? HWH |
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| Treacodactyl |
In "The New Oxford Book of Food Plants" it says that the plants are left for 3-5 years before being harvested. In well drained soil they should reach a depth of a meter and spread for several.
(That's also a very good book) |
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| sally_in_wales |
Got a big jar of liquorice roots left over from my days peddling herbs. They are a year or two old now, but still perfectly chompable. Anyone want a few? Reckon I've got enough to send 3 or 4 roots to the first maybe 3 people who say they want some  )
Sally |
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| tahir |
I'd love some, hope I'm not too late | ||
| macatsuma |
we sell cart loads of this stuff in bundles from china, where it has been used for centuries for gastro intestinal problems, but interestingly it was also used as a contraceptive or libido suppresent because of its bromide like properties. and somebody got a grant to study it news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3112606.stm
so steady there tahir
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| Bugs |
I dare say if Mrs Tahir sees that post she'll be ordering a truckload 
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| hardworkinghippy |
Ah Merde alors,
I'm off to dig mine up! 
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| tahir |
Sounds good to me, 3 sprogs are more than enough |