Enis of vegetable "Blues", 0.3 g

Annual medicinal, spicy and etheric plant. Contains fat and essential oils, has a strong spicy aroma and soft taste. Mid-season variety, period from seedlings to cutting on herbs 60-65 days, to the ripening of seeds-115 days.

The plant forms a vertical outlet up to 55 cm high with 18-20 leaves. The leaf is long-term, medium sized, light green, rounded-heart-shaped, dissected, toothed along the edge. The flowers are white. The seeds are oval, greenish-gray. The mass of one plant 50 g. Greens yield of 1.4 kg/m2, seeds - 0.8 kg/m2. It is recommended for the use of young leaves and seeds as a spicy-in-shell seasoning in home cooking and canning.

Anise is a fairly cold -resistant culture, prefers fertile soils and solar location. Seeds are sown in open ground in early spring. The germination of seeds is slow, shoots appear after 16-20 days. The distance between the rows is 50 cm. The seedlings are thinned out, I leave the distance between plants 15-20 cm. Care consists in weeds, loosening and irrigation as necessary. When growing anise, inflorescences are removed selectively, because The ripening of the seeds is inappropriate. Completely ripened seeds quickly crumble.