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Supplied as a pot grown plant grown in a 7cm pot.
Available from APPROXIMATELY late April / early MayAlso known as Persian Cumin, the use of Caraway as a flavouring is said to have originated with the ancient Arabs. Although Caraway seeds look like Cumin seeds, their flavour is very different, and more similar to Anise.
Caraway is a biennial, and thus flowers in its second year. The seeds ripen a month after flowering, just before the plant dies (but it will readily self seed). Not only can the seed be eaten, but both the leaves and roots also.
The herbalist John Parkinson noted that Caraway seeds were, "much used to be put among baked fruit, or into bread, cakes, etc., to give them a rellish. It is also made into comfites and taken for cold or wind in the body, which also are served to the table with fruit". In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Squire Shallow invites Falstaff to 'a pippin and a dish of Caraways'.
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How To Sow & Grow Herbs
Detailed advice on sowing and growing herbs outside and under protection. Includes information on watering and pest control.