Benefits of Growing Chives at Home

There are many advantages of growing your own vegetables, including chives at home. First it helps the family get fresh fruit and vegetables to eat catering to the full nutrition needs. Next it saves on grocery bills as most of the vegetables can also be preserved by various methods. Next it helps save the environment because of reduction in the use of fossil fuels and lesser use of pesticides and herbicides. Besides there are other benefits like getting better tasting vegetables, some outdoor exercise, lesser chances of wastage and a sense of pride in producing your own fruits and vegetables.

Growing chives in your kitchen garden gives you certain medicinal benefits. An ointment or paste made of chives can be used to prevent infection in wounds and burns. This is due to it's anti-bacterial and anti-fungal property. You can benefit by mixing chives juice with vinegar and using them externally on age spots, warts and freckles. A folk medicine to cure baldness is to put chives juice on your head and sit in the sun.

Chives and the other members of that family grown at home is beneficial if you or your family member suffer from high blood pressure and cholesterol problem. Their high sulphur content helps in better circulation of blood in the body. So those of you who suffer from these ailments should make it a point to include the onion family member chives regularly in your diet.

The benefits of chives grown at home are many and research is bringing out more uses of it. It is beneficial for the respiratory system and helps get over tiredness and fatigue. Besides it also helps in the digestion of fatty foods, helps to reduce weight and obesity. A person who consumes chives regularly will have no or less fluid retention in the body.

Chives has the benefit of stimulating the appetite of sick people and helps them eat better. Besides it is an effective remedy and preventive for various forms of cancer specifically prostrate cancer.

The nutritive benefits of chives and it's flowers is worth noting. They have high Vitamin C, folic acid, potassium, which helps to restore vital nutrients lost in cooking when they are added to various recipes. Chives, the mildest member of the onion family gives the additional, excellent benefit of Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, B2, calcium, phosphorus and iron. When grown at home and used in various recipes they offer a protective shield against heart diseases, strokes and other stomach problems.

Chives lose their benefits if dried; so use them fresh only. They are good flavoring agents when used with fresh parsley, chervil and tarragon to make what the French call herbs. You must try them out in various other ways in your recipes to get the good benefits.

Grow them at your home and use them to sprinkle over your salads and sandwiches, add to your scrambled eggs or mix them with cottage cheese and eat with jacket potato. You can add them to mayonnaise or garlic mayonnaise or even use them in sandwich spreads.Add them to your yogurt, melted butter for sauce for grilled fish or poultry and raw mixture for beef burgers and croquettes.

I am sure you would benefit a lot by growing chives at home and using them in different forms in your daily diet.