Growing Garlic Chives....................
The cultivation of garlic chives
Site: Garlic chives prefer a sunny position in rich, moist but well drained soil, but are also quite forgiving of adverse conditions.
Propagation: Garlic chives from seeds germinate easily, after which they can easily be propagated by dividing clumps, or you can just buy the plants.
Growing: Space the clumps 9 inches apart and 2 cm deep. It is advisable to re-distribute your own garlic chives every few years to maintain the vitality of the plants. Division can nearly always possible, but is probably best done in spring. Water the plants regularly, especially during dry periods. Garlic chives general as moist (not soggy) soil. During her first season to keep watering to encourage root growth. If your herb appears to be more woody plants, all to allow to prune about one centimeter above the ground to start new growth. Garlic chives tend to go dormant in climates with cold winters.
Crops: Garlic chives often have to be harvested. You can treat it like regular chives, pinch all the buds that appear, or you let it flower in autumn, when the buds and flowers as edible as the leaves. The leaves are flat and not as regular chives are shaped tube formed but the same cut a scalp level.
Culinary uses: This close cousin of regular Chives has a mild taste of garlic and chives are sometimes called Chinese, because they are used primarily in Asian cooking. Pink flowers appear on the common chives and garlic chives have white flowers. They are also edible and can be used to garnish salads. See harvest and storage herbs.
Site: Garlic chives prefer a sunny position in rich, moist but well drained soil, but are also quite forgiving of adverse conditions.
Propagation: Garlic chives from seeds germinate easily, after which they can easily be propagated by dividing clumps, or you can just buy the plants.
Growing: Space the clumps 9 inches apart and 2 cm deep. It is advisable to re-distribute your own garlic chives every few years to maintain the vitality of the plants. Division can nearly always possible, but is probably best done in spring. Water the plants regularly, especially during dry periods. Garlic chives general as moist (not soggy) soil. During her first season to keep watering to encourage root growth. If your herb appears to be more woody plants, all to allow to prune about one centimeter above the ground to start new growth. Garlic chives tend to go dormant in climates with cold winters.
Crops: Garlic chives often have to be harvested. You can treat it like regular chives, pinch all the buds that appear, or you let it flower in autumn, when the buds and flowers as edible as the leaves. The leaves are flat and not as regular chives are shaped tube formed but the same cut a scalp level.
Culinary uses: This close cousin of regular Chives has a mild taste of garlic and chives are sometimes called Chinese, because they are used primarily in Asian cooking. Pink flowers appear on the common chives and garlic chives have white flowers. They are also edible and can be used to garnish salads. See harvest and storage herbs.
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