Chives Herb Garden Plants

What Is Chives Herb Garden Plants 

Allium schoenoprasum, A.Tuberosum (Lily) 

Appearance: 

Chives look like tufts of grass finish and are ideal for use as a grinding path to the garden and herb garden. As they mature leaves become circular and concave and reach about 30-40 cm (12-15 inches) in length. (Giant Chives grow a little higher). 

Description: 

Chives are widely grown herbs, robustness is an excellent material for growing in pots or planters with good drainage. The taste is refined and onion-like and is the best before flowering plants, or plants that are prevented from flowering. 

Chives or green onions with garlic (Allium tuberosum) form clusters of like their cousins ​​Chinese onion chives, but grass-like leaves are flat. Chives are known to attract bees to the garden. 

Use: 

When chopped as a topping for cheese and eggs dishes, soups, salads, sandwiches and quiches, fresh stem strips are added just before serving. Chives are rarely used in cooking the sweet flavor is overwhelmed. In the garden allow various plants Flowers purple display / pink. Using flowers as a garnish in soups or to decorate a cheese or cold plate. The leaves and flowers can be incorporated into salads and herb butter. 

According to one of my sources of information about the herb garden, green onions are widely regarded as a tonic cleansing the blood and fight against the flu or a cold. 

Culture: 

Divide clumps established lamps every three years, in the spring, and clusters of transplantation outer edges of the agglomerates. Choose a location where they can enjoy the shade during the day and remove the flower heads to maintain a continuous supply of leaves. The foliage dies down in winter, then mulch with dry leaves deeply to encourage some initial plans. Pot is a group of lamps in the fall (autumn) to stay on the porch or on the window sill. flower heads appear in summer and can be used for salads. 

Pete Steel has grown herbs for 25 years in several different climates and soils. The result is a book on the magnification of the herb called "Kung Fu Herb Gardening Exposed". It covers all aspects of gardening of herbs and using herbs.