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Allium schoenoprasum - Chives - Seeds

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Allium schoenoprasum - Chives
1 packet of 50 seeds

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Leaves, flowers, and bulbs (small) are edible, Chives being grown mainly as a condiment for its leaves tasting like onion (used raw in salads, cheeses, omelettes, etc.)

Allium schoenoprasum has some medicinal properties: Appetizer, Digestive, Hypotensive and Tonic

Its juice is insect repellent and antifungal
It can be used in the garden as natural treatment

Any vegetable garden should have its tuft of Chives: easy, tasty and decorative with its abundant pink-purple flowering

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Cultivation

Sow early, in February-March on a clean soil in your vegetable garden, full sun exposure

Keep clean by regular weeding

In April or May when the plantlets are developed enough, transplant them to their final place, full sun exposure grouping them by 15 or 20 to form small clumps

Harvest as and when required, starting from June by cutting the leaves with scissors 5cm above the ground

Leaves regenerate fast

Grows back from its base each year starting from February

In winter, clean and weed

In summer, cut all vegetation 3cm above the ground to stimulate new growth of fresh edible leaves

Maintenance free, resist to severe frosts and droughts

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