What Are Garlic Chives ?

Garlic chives are a perennial herbaceous and they are stronger in flavor than just regular chives. If a person likes to have a mild garlic flavor, this herb is the one you will want to get, because with this one, nobody will get a full-fledged garlic taste. Garlic chives is also called Chinese chives.

Garlic chives will grow in zones of four to nine. This herb will grow from twelve to fifteen inches tall.

Garlic chives has white star- shaped lightly fragrant flowers in clusters. They will flowered anytime from late spring through early fall.

Garlic chives likes to grow in open meadow areas in temperature or subtropical climates.

As far as propagation of the garlic chives, the seeds can  be sown in spring or early summer, either directly into the garden space or indoors and they will be transplanted later on. It takes the seeds to germinate in about two weeks, and the germination is high, and it is eighty to ninety percent. Garlic chives grows in clumps and they need to be spaced at least twelve inches apart and they require moderate water. They will spread if the area where they are planted are moist, if not moist, they seem to stay where they are planted.

 

Garlic chives likes full sun to partial shade and they like to have well-drained soil.

Garlic chives are a great herb to grow on your windowsill or in a patio container. They are nice to have planted in the food gardens. Some other herbs that they like to be grown with sage, dill, and parsley.

To harvest this herb, it has to be cut with scissors or snips and the green stems or the unopened buds is what is harvest. The opened flower clusters may be harvested.

The garlic chives tastes stronger than chives,  but not as strong as garlic is. The fresh stems and unopened flower buds can be used in soups, salads, stir fries, and vegetable dishes. Garlic chives can be used either fresh or frozen.

The white starry flowers are very pretty in green salads, and in a tomato, cucumber salad, giving each salad a light garlic flavor. I used the flowers in herb butter and spread it on my corn on the cob which will give anybody a mid-summer vegetable treat.