Vitamin bite
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Ground elder.
| Ground elder | Naat | Aegopodium podagraria |
If the chives in the garden bed are only just beginning to grow, then the ground elder has had its tips out for some time already at the outskirts of forests and gardens. It is worth remembering that it makes a nice addition to your salad.
Alhtough it is a pest for some gardeners because it spreads so quickly by rhizome growths, the plant also has a largely positive side – the C-vitamin rich leaves.
After a winter with scarce food they are a great boon for wild animals, and the ground elder was an important source of vitamins for people in the past.
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