The difference between leek yellow and garlic yellow is as follows:

Garlic yellow is the unseen garlic seedling, the thickness is the same as a small garlic seedling, and the leek yellow is the unseen leek, the thickness is the same as a leek but much thinner than garlic yellow. Look closely you can see that the roots of garlic yellow with garlic, because it grows out of garlic, so it is garlic yellow, and garlic yellow leaves and thin and long, the tip and some volume.

Distinguish leeks and garlic yellow to do a smell and two look, a smell: leeks with a special strong odor, and garlic yellow has a pungent taste. Second look: if the stem is flat is chives, round is garlic yellow garlic yellow pinch off will be sticky, chives will not, garlic yellow has a pungent flavor, chives do not have, some black hearted vegetable vendors switch to profit, because the price of chives is higher than the garlic yellow, hope to buy attention to distinguish.

Chives

Chives are leeks through the cultivation of soil, shading cover and other measures, in the absence of light in the environment after the softening of the production of yellowing leeks after cultivation. Chives to young leaves for people to eat, not only nutritious, but also has a certain therapeutic health effects, so for people to love.

Today's agricultural historians, more than recorded leek production, first seen in the early Yuan Wang Zhen "book of agriculture. Book Volume VIII of the "Hundred Grain Spectrum" five "Vegetable Genus" contains: "to the winter, remove the root hidden in the shade of the ground house, cultivated with horse manure, warm and that is long, up to a foot high, do not see the wind and the sun, and its leaves are yellow and tender, known as leek yellow." ② theorists say that this is the creation of a greenhouse hoarding leek cultivation leeks.

Wang Zhen "book of agriculture" was written in the second year of Huangqing (1313), but in the second year of Huangqing two hundred and sixty years ago, Mei Yaochen has written a poem about the situation in the Mu Jing leek sale. The poem reads: When everything is frozen and not yet alive, I first met the vegetable seller. I know that the dung soil is warm and can sprout spring. Soft and beautiful has been recommended first, Yang and non-uniform.