TROPICA - Yellow Nutsedge (Nut Grass) (Cyperus esculentus) - 6 SeedsWorth knowing: Many of the foreign and exotic vegetable species have found their way into Europe quite late. For the most part they existed as ornamental plants or as eccentrics within the plant world in botanical gardens. From the 17th century on, the first world-traveling vegetables like the tomato or the aubergine were starting to arrive in Southern Europe. It is to this very day that the vegetable consumption in Southern Europe is twice as high as it is here. During the 18th century, peppers from Hungary and chili peppers from India were joining them. Cultivation made matters worse since a lot of vegetables do prefer a warm climate. Almost every kind of vegetable is praised by physicians and scientists alike for their “inner values”. With traveling abroad becoming faster and easier for everyone, people got used to the taste of foreign food and its unusual and exotic vegetables. Origin: In West Africa, the yellow nutsedge, also known as tigernut sedge, has been grown as grocery for thousands of years. The herbaceous plant is perennial, is growing up to 60 cm in height and is a member of the genus sedges. It produces long extensions (stolons) below ground, with tuberous thickenings about 1,50 cm in diameter – the nutsedges. The tubers are brown coloured and oleiferous. Propagation: The tiger nut sedge can be pre-grown in a pot from April on. Leave the tubers to soak in water overnight and plant them 2 cm deep in loamy-sandy soil. Temperatures should not drop below 12°C. If you plan to move the plant outside from mid-May on, the ideal distance between single plants would be 30-40 cm. The plant loves a climate with temperatures at 13°-25°C.
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