Seeds of leaf onion Chives, Siberian onions, healthy and tasty

• Packing / number of seeds: 1.5 g (300 - 375 Shives seeds in one pack)
• Sowing rate: 1 kg to 1.5 kg of seed per acre.
• Yield.
• Sowing period. It can be sown all year round when grown in pots and planters at home.
• Sowingperiod. No need for pre-seedlings.
• Sow at the following spacing - 20/10 cm. Choose sunny, moist and fertile soil.
• 60 to 90 days.
• Fruiting characteristics: Onion leaf (Shives) forms leaves with a tubular and hollow shape. They have an intense onion flavour, mild taste with a slight spiciness. Siberian green onions have extremely showy purple flowers. For this reason it is also valued in the construction of rock gardens and rock flower gardens.

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You can order Siberian green onion seeds from semenata.bg. The vegetable plant, which is also known as onion grass or Siberian onion, is extremely applicable in salads and various dishes. Its fresh taste and the way it looks make it especially used in the arrangement of many ornamental gardens.

The vegetable belongs to the Coqui family and is known in our lands as the leaf onion. Its advantage is that it is a perennial plant, reaching a height of 20 to 30 sammeters. Shives is a European vegetable, which does not make it unknown worldwide, quite the opposite.

Its seeds can be grown safely at home in pots or chests. The convenience, apart from the fact that it will always be at hand, is that you can make use of green onions all year round. For spring production, sow the seeds between 10 March and 10 April, and for summer production between 20 May and 10 July. Seed germination occurs at a soil temperature of at least two degrees.

To sow an area of 1 acre with green onion seeds, you need about 1 to 1,5 kg. The seeds themselves are placed 2 to 2,5 cm deep in the soil.

It is good to be aware that for sowing Shives outdoors you need to wait for the period of possible frost.

Sowing is done in rows. The rows themselves should be spaced 20 cm apart, with about 10 cm between plants.

You can also sow the onion seeds in pots or directly outdoors in the garden. The growing season of Shives is 60 to 90 days. Once the vegetables are ready they are harvested by cutting off only the leaves. They are hollow and tubular, appetising and delicious.

In addition to being perennial, Shives green onions are particularly cold hardy. To have good production you need to find a sunny spot in your garden and keep the soil moist. Onions like fertile soils. It is important to know that to have longer lasting foliage from onions in your yard you need to remove their flowers.

The fact that Shives form beautiful purple flowers makes them very high in ornamental qualities. It will brighten up your garden and combined with that, you will have a pollinator plant. Onions for green have in their composition vitamins, iron and many other useful substances.

In addition to making salads with a fresh taste and pleasant aroma, green onions are also used in culinary arrangements. You can make use of the green stalks alone, but also its beautiful purple flowers are extremely successful. They are ideal for decorating meat and fish dishes.