Allium odoratum L.
Brand: Legutko
Packaged:1,0 g
Availability:In Stock
1.76€
Ex Tax: 1.45€
Chinese chives - fresh spice with a bright aroma of garlic.
Very early and juicy vitamin greens! Flowering plants have a pleasant aroma of hyacinth.
Perennial. The leaves are elastic, narrow-linear (35-50 cm long), dark green, tender, juicy and with a garlic taste.
The leaves do not grow coarse for a long time. It is used fresh as a spicy flavour additive to dishes, as well as an ornamental plant (star-shaped white flowers with a pleasant aroma).
Ideal for growing indoors. 
Young leaves are cut at a height of 5-7 cm from the ground 3-4 times during the growing season.
The leaves are dark green, flat, trihedral, juicy and tender without spiciness, with a slight garlic taste, 30-35 cm long, 0.9-1.1 cm wide.
The content of ascorbic acid is 85-89 mg%, it has a low fibre content, due to which the leaves do not coarsen until late autumn.
Cutting greenery begins from the second year, 2-3 times a season. Productivity at one-time harvesting is 1.3-1.5 kg/m2, with repeated cutting up to 2.7 kg/m2.
1,0 g = 190-250 seeds.
Sowing in open ground: April - May.
Harvest: July - August.
Landing pattern: 20x30 cm.

Eng.: Sweet-Scented Onion, Chinense chives. Bot. syn.: Allium ramosum, Allium tuberosum L.

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