Chives
Chives are one of the easiest crops to grow year-round. Widely used as a garnish, they are popular with salads, omelets and sandwiches.
Tui Chives Seed offers an edible and decorative herb with mild onion flavour. A cut and come again crop - the plant will regrow for continuous harvests.
Sow in seed raising trays, direct in the garden, or in containers if you're short on space.
Contains 150 seeds.
Benefits
- Easy to grow.
- Light onion flavour popular with egg dishes and salads.
- Continual harvest, can cut and come again.
- Recyclable paper envelope.
Directions for use
Sowing in trays
- Prepare seed trays with Tui Seed Raising Mix.
- Sow seeds 5mm deep.
- Keep well watered.
Sowing direct
- Before planting work Tui Seed Raising Mix into soil.
- Sow seeds 5mm deep and 2cm apart.
- Keep well watered.
Seedlings can be transplanted once they reach 6-8cm in height.
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Tui Seed Raising Mix
Nurturing your plant from a tiny seed to a delicious crop of veges, or a stunning floral display, provides satisfaction second to none for gardeners! To make sure your seed raising endeavours end in success start with Tui Seed Raising Mix. This light, free draining mix is specially blended to provide ideal conditions for germinating seeds and seedling establishment. Gypsum ensures strong, healthy root growth and seaweed improves root development and overall plant health.
Use in seed raising trays, your garden, containers and pots to provide your seeds with the ultimate growing conditions.
This bag is recyclable through the soft plastics recycling scheme, it just needs to be clean and dry. Learn how to clean and dry your Tui growing media bags here.
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Tui Parsley Seed - Italian offers a well known variety full of flavour. A favourite in European and Mediterranean cooking, harvest as required and the plant will regrow.
Sow in seed raising trays, direct in the garden, or in containers.
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