Chives Go Ahead, Eat Flowers

Chives are in full bloom from late May to mid-June in my garden Zone 4. They keep their flowers are lavender light leaves of grass-like, as if to show them. What appears as a single flower is very small flowers that radiate from a central point. Shoot the flowers into pieces and sprinkle them over a salad. The flavor of onion and unusual color will make your living salad.

The ancient Chinese used green onions, already in 3000 BC. It is considered from Siberia and temperate regions of Southeast Asia.

Marco Polo is credited with bringing the resistant perennial chives, Allium shoenoprasum for Eastern Italy. Chives now grow wild in the northern hemisphere.

To start from chive seeds, sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon of tea of ​​coffee seeds in a piece of 4-inch by 4-inch of your garden. Cover with 1/2 inch of soil and firm the soil with your hands. water well. Logo small shoots of grass-like will arise. Then cut within three inches of the soil. Let your chives grow for the rest of the first year without cutting again. They will grow in a healthy group established.

Small pots of chives are sold in garden centers and farmers markets each spring. Transplant into a corner of your garden. Treat them the same green onions grown from seeds: cut once when eight inches tall and resist the urge to cut again in the first year.

Chives are very easy to grow and are not bothered by pests. Each year, they grow larger and more lush. The withdrawal of a portion of a bush provided Chives are barely noticeable. And you will not have to pamper them as seedlings or transplanted chives.

If you already have a mature group of chives, cut within three inches off the ground a few times during the growing season. This will force the plant to put out new growth, which will be soft and sweet.

Before his first record, killing frost, cut your chives one last time. You can cut or cut into small pieces, place in a plastic zipper bag and pop it in the freezer. Chives live for many years and survive even the coldest winter temperatures without protection. Folklore tells us that if you hang dry scallion curls around the house, they will avoid diseases and evil spirits.