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- This is how you harvest your home-grown lemongrass
- Grass plant with a fine lemon aroma
- Freshly cut lemongrass if possible
- Procedure at harvest
- Use the harvested lemongrass
- Tips & Tricks
This is how you harvest your home-grown lemongrass
If you love the Asian cuisine, you probably know the aromatic lemon or lemongrass. It can be cultivated on the windowsill and during the warm summer months in the garden or on the balcony. Properly groomed sprout new shoots during the growth period, which you can reap continuously. Read in this article how to do this.
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Lemongrass belongs to the grass family and makes long leaves whose shape resembles our native reed grass. They grow like tufts from a thickened bulb and are also white in the lower part with a delicate lilac shimmer.
Freshly cut lemongrass if possible
During the summer months, always harvest the lemongrass fresh, because then the taste of the spice is most intense. If the sliced tuft contains more stalks than you need, you can keep the lemongrass wrapped in kitchen paper or newspaper for up to 14 days in the refrigerator. Alternatively, lemongrass can be frozen for up to six months.
Procedure at harvest
If the lemongrass grows well you should only harvest bulbs if possible. Use a very sharp cutting tool as the lemongrass is relatively hard. Clean the knife before harvesting to prevent germs from entering the plant.
When harvesting, make sure not to touch or even crush the roots remaining in the soil. These are very sensitive, so that often no new grass tufts grow out of injured root parts. Even developed side shoots could go down.
Use the harvested lemongrass
Only very young and delicate bulbs can be eaten finely chopped. Mostly lemongrass is opened several times, crunched with the back of the knife or iron and boiled for some time. Before serving, lemongrass is sifted out.
Tips & Tricks
Harvesting and regular cutting are important care measures that ensure good growth and dense growth. If the lemon grass grows too high, you should also harvest the green leaf tips. Coarsely crushed you can use them to prepare a delicious lemongrass tea.
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