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Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
  • Garlic Chives
Garlic Chives

Allium tuberosum
$4.50
Description

This indispensable and indestructible plant is a must have for your kitchen herb garden. We have been digging and dividing this same plant since 2012 when we originally received them from James Steele in Melrose when he ran the Melrose Herb Garden. It doesn't die in a frost, nor in the hottest August heat of our summers. When it gets too big, we gently dig and pull apart the roots, re-plant and share them.

They often flower and make seed too, which is great for diversity, since digging and dividing is just a clone. The flowers are VERY attractive to pollinators and are quite pungent garlic smelling!
Product details
  • About 25 seeds
  • 30 days to harvest
  • Seeds grown in Working Food gardens at GROW HUB in Gainesville, Florida
How to grow

Sow seeds ¼" deep, about 6" apart. Garlic chives are tough and can probably be planted any time of year, but early spring is a good time to get them started.

They do well with little fuss, but will thrive in good garden soil with occasional fertilizer. Plant in full sun. They don't need much irrigation once established, but supplemental water during dry periods—especially while plants are young—will help them get established.
How to save seeds

Garlic chive seeds are very easy to save! After the lovely white flowers are pollinated by the loads of insects that will visit them, watch for little brown husks to open up as the seeds mature, revealing little black seeds.

Flowering tends to happen in late summer/early fall. After they have seeded, the plant will still continue to grow, and not die. This is the beauty of this tough and long-lived plant that is both perennial and a re-seeding annual!

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