I've just read one of the links on a thread that said about planting liquorice. As a youngster we used to be able to buy liquorice root as a sweet to chew (maybe someone will remember it....please!). Is it possible to grow this and, if so, do we have to let it dry out for some time? Is anyone growing it out there? :)
I have seen seeds for this somwewhere recently, do you want me to look Xx Jeannine
Only if you have the time - do you remember liquorice sticks? We used to buy them about the time of blackjacks and fruit salad chews (4 for an old penny) I think the sticks were a penny each!
Oh do I XX Jeannine
The Green Chronicle £1 10 p packet XX Jeannine
PS Did you know there are several shops on line where you can get your Black Jacks, Friut Salad, Wood liquorice, Tiger Nuts ,Aniseed Balls etc and all the crystals we dipped our black liquorice in
Don't hold back where???? :o
Awwwwww!! my dad's got a corner shop in Barnsley and he still sells black Jack's and fruit salads, dipping crystal but best of all pontefract cakes, yorkshire mix and midget gems!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Can't eat plain (candy) liquorice - pontefract cakes :( I only like the coconut ones in the Bassets selection and hubby always pinches all the brown sandwich ones. I still try and find black jacks and fruit salad chews at Christmas time for stocking fillers for hubby along with the old pinks prawns too. Flying saucers and lucky bags made a comeback last year though. :) Too much choice nowadays with sweets, I look and look and look then can be bothered, so sad.
Forgot to ask, what is Yorkshire mix? Is dipping crystal the same as sherbut? Lastly, tiger nuts are HEAVILY addictive, yum.
Have ordered liquorice seed and sweet cecily..... thank you. :)
Are you going to share nicely with your friends when you eat it !!!
You have my 10% when they arrive, thank you XXX Now, your job is to grow the tiger nuts!!! ;D ;D ;D
Ok are you on a diet per chance.....
www.bagsofsweets.co.uk
www.aquarterof.co.uk ************* favourite
www.theoldsweetshop.co.uk
Eat your fill XX Jeannine
No diet here!! No emoticom for drawling either, so these will have to do. :P :P :P Added the lot to favourites and roll on Christmas, well not too fast like to get some liquorice underway first!
ninnyscrops a link to Yorkshire mix
http://www.theoldvillageshop.co.uk/searchresults.asp
PS do you remember rhubarb and custard! Mmmmmm mouths watering!
Thanks Biscombe - added too! Rhubard and Custard reminds me of after swimming when I was little, a cup of hot chocolate from the machine, thens a bag of chips with crackling on the way home and R & C sweets, no matter what time of year!
I've planted liquorice seeds this year too, they've just started to show. I bought the seeds at the BBC Garden Show last year, from the Eden project collection, reduced to 50p.
Bit of an adventure this one, I can't wait to see (and smell/taste) what this does.
Sand
Weres thi fathers shop biscombe i'm in Barnsley.Is it easy to grow licorice?
Hey Northener!!!!! do you know Rotherham Road?
Rotherham Road no i can't think of it. Pubs nearby?
Sherbet dips, sherbet lemons, peardrops, aniseed twists, sweet peanuts, pinapple chunks, army and navy, lemon bomboms, the list goes on, no wonder I spent so much money on the dentists over the years. ;D ;D ;D
Ahhhhhh what are you doing to me Kev!! ;)
With all this talk of sweets, maybe I should post the Sweet Shop quiz I have. XX Jeannine
Post away Jeannine you could call it Easter EGG HEADS.
Mmmmmm...liquorice...are you talking about the liquorice you buy in strings?? I know you're talking about growing liquorice, but don't understand what type! There are so many :)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that growing licorice nvolves digging trenches about 4 foot deep :o
Hi Potterfanpete, no this is the actual root of the plant that you just chew for the juices!
And thanks for that HappyMouffetard! Couldn't you have posted this before I ordered the seed ::)
According to my packet from the Eden Project
'For best results, provide a deep, fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Height 3ft'
Just noticed the price on the packet is £3.49! Bargain at 50p from the Gardener's World show. All the Thompson & Morgan seeds were 50p there so I stocked up.
I did a quick google and was a bit alarmed to see that it can be quite dangerous to your blood pressure etc so I might just grow it for the flowers and smell.
Or perhaps just a nibble...
sand
It could be digging the four feet deep trench that's bad for the blood pressure ;D
Actually I think it is the race to the loo that raises your BP XX Jeannine
Quote from: sand on April 01, 2007, 21:54:43
According to my packet from the Eden Project
'For best results, provide a deep, fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Height 3ft'
Having grown up in Pontefract where liquorice was grown commercially for many years, the reason I was told that it did so well there is that it is at the junction of Permian and coal measures - I think the Permian is sandstone - cos there's a lot of that there.
The soil is light but with plenty of body - easy to dig but doesn't dry out in summer
I don't remember a lot of sun!!!
Phil
The Permian is certainly known for its sandstone, but I'd have thought the key was in the precise nature of the rock, the resulting soil, and the climate, rather than its age!
Who said anything about age!!!
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