Nasturtium Golden Yellow Flowering Seeds

Description

Purchase Description

• Nasturtium Golden Yellow Flowering Seeds
• Quantity :around 50 seeds

Description

Adding flowers to food has long been a custom in many cultures around the world. For centuries, Chinese cooks have used lotus, chrysanthemum, and lily flowers or buds in their recipes. 
American colonists added marigolds to mutton broth. Nasturtiums, among the best-known edible flowers, are popular with chefs. Not only do they dress up a plate, but they re high in vitamins A, C (10 times as much as in lettuce), and D. The leaves, flowers, buds, and seeds are all edible, with a peppery flavour that adds a zing to any dish.

How to grow and maintainance

• The nursery beds have to be prepared finely by adding compost.
• Grooves of half cm deep have to be made and covered with thin layer of soil.
• Drench the bed with captain or blue copper solutions @3g per liter of water.
• Cover the beds with straw of paper.
• The seeds take 4-6 days to germinated, as soon as you see that the seeds are just germinating, remove the straw or paper.
• After four weeks the seedlings will be read for transplanting to flower beds or big pots.
• For small seeded flower varieties viz.
• ageratum, alyssum, begonia, carnation, celosia, kochia, cineraria, coleus, dianthus, gypsophila, impatiens, petunia, pansy, phlox, portulaca, statice, viola, verbena etc.
• The sowing medium should contain sieved leaf mould or compost, sand and ted soil in equal proportions.
• Pour the medium in a wooden box of size 1 X 1.
• 5 X3" or seed pans and press uniformly.
• Make half cm deep groove, using a wooden stick.
• Spray captain or blue copper @3g per liter of water till the media is completely drenched.
• So the seed s thinly in the groove and spray the fungicide solution again.
• Do not cover the seeds with medium.
• Cover the box with a transparent plastic sheet and keep in shaded place.
• The seeds take 4-6 days to germinate.
• As soon as you notice that the seeds are just germination, remove the cover and expose at the seedlings to partial shade, otherwise seedlings will become lanky.
• Gradually you can keep the box or seed pan in full sunlight.
• After four weeks the seedling will be ready for transplanting to flower beds or big pots.