Providing Herbs, Fine Seeds and Goods for the Gardener Cook since 1950
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Providing Herbs, Fine Seeds and Goods for the Gardener Cook since 1950
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Chinese Bitter Melon

Chinese Bitter Melon

$2.95 $0.00
    Open pollinated. Heirloom.
    • 65 days.
    • These waxy bitter fruits are an important accent flavor in Chinese cuisine. The key to proper preparation is to blanch for 2 to 3 minutes so that the bitter flavor can gently enhance the taste of the other foods in the dish.
    • Plants are very rambling vines, small leaved and will screen a trellis or arbor.
    •  Harvest Chinese Bitter Melon when green to yellow and firm.

    Planting Directions:  Sow seed in spring when the ground is warm, 60°minimum, 95° maximum, and all danger of frost has past.  Plant 6-8 seeds 1” deep in hills that are spaced 4’ apart.  Thin plants leaving the 3 strongest in each hill.  Well rotted manure mixed into bottom of each hill will stimulate growth and increase yield.  Plant in full sun.