Giersch from my garden in Ritterhude 25.5.2011

[Na Bha]

*Giersch* (/Aegopodium podagraria/) is a weed and in fact a headache for
gardners, for me too. It spreads all over the garden by underground
rhizomes. I keep on digging it out but even a very small piece of the
rhizome is enough for it to grow. The flowers look very decorative and a
good treat to eyes when walking thru woods.
I exchange plants with my friends and it is a good opportunity for
giersch to travel from garden to garden.
I don't know if it grows in northern parts of india.

Giersch is traditional medicin against Gout and Rheuma. The leaves
before flowering are also very good as vegetable and salad. Young leaves
are tasty. At present because of the dangerous EHEK coli infection in
north of germany and surrounding countries we are advised not to eat raw
salad, cucumber, tomatos etc. from the market. So at present we have
everyday Giersch salad, not all that nice, if you eat it every day. But
my tomato plants are still small, having just flowers, and till they
grow tomatos, it will take many weeks.

Gierschsoup along with Sauerampfer is equally tasty. Sending
Sauerampfer-fotos in a saperate mail.
Regards
Nalini