How to grow Rampion

Campanula rapunculus

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Growing Rampion from seed

Sow the seeds directly on top of soil. Since the seeds are very tiny it helps to add sand to seeds to help sow them evenly. Keep them moist and they will sprout.

Harvesting Rampion

If grown for culinary use, it must not be allowed to flower, and the roots should be earthed up several inches on each side in order to blanch them. They are fit for use in November, and should be lifted then and stored in a frost-proof place.

How long does Rampion take to grow?

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Rampion Etymology

The genus Latin name (“campanula”), meaning small bell, refers to the bell-shape of the flower, while the specific name (“rapunculus”) is a diminutive of the Latin “rapa” (turnip) and means ‘little turnip’, which refers to the shape of the root.

Rampion Folklore & Trivia

There is an Italian tradition that the possession of a rampion excites quarrels among children. The plant figures in one of Grimm’s tales, the heroine, Rapunzel, being named after it, and the whole plot is woven around the theft of rampions from a magician’s garden. In an old Calabrian tale, a maiden, uprooting a rampion in a field, discovers a staircase that leads to a palace far down in the depths of the earth.

Other names for Rampion

Rapunzel, rover bellflower, Raapklokje

Footnotes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_rapunculus
http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/r/rampio03.html