Planting: Rich well drained soil in sun, half-hardy annual, 20”. It needs a hot summer to thrive and for seed to ripen.
Harvest: Plants and leaves are cut in summer and used fresh. Seeds are collected as they ripen and used for oil or dried and used whole, ground, or in distilled water and infusions.
Culinary: Fresh leaves added to salads, vegetables, soups.
Medicinal: A sweet, warming herb that improves digestions, benefits the liver and circulation, and has expectorant and estrogenic effects. Used internally for dry coughs, whooping, cough, asthma.
Links:
Wiki Pimpinella Anisum
Sources:
The Royal Horticultural Society New Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses (RHS)
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