Chives, Garlic

Garlic Chives

  • botanical name: Allium tuberosum
  • perennial zones 3-9
  • height 12-24″
  • spacing 8-10″ apart
  • full sun tolerant, morning/afternoon shade
  • average-moist soil
  • flower color white
  • uses in garden: as a border, great in containers, cut flower or foliage, fragrant
  • use in dips, salads, on baked potatoes, used to flavor cream cheese, herb butters, and cream sauces
  • attracts bees and butterflies
  • deer resistant

*Please note: We accept plant orders at any time of the year and if you prefer to place an order outside our regular shipping months of April-May, ordering is still easy. “Why we only ship in April and May”

Due to the nature of shipping live plants, when you place an order, we will simply hold your order and ship it at the proper time for your zone, when weather permits in April 2013. Seed packets are shipped year round through USPS.

For more information see our “Ordering and Shipping Policy.”

Organic herb plant

Garlic Chives is beloved not only for its versatile culinary uses but for its elegance in the garden. Tall, starry white flowers spring out of a mound of smooth gray-green grassy leaves. You can go out to the garden in midsummer and gather swaths of it for practically any dish. Its flavor is a lovely, mild combination of what everyone loves best: onions and garlic. Use the flowers in fresh arrangements. You can also dry the leaves, or freeze them for later use.

Garlic Chive seeds are also available. Purchase them here.

Sowing Instructions:
You can sow seed directly into fine garden soil or start indoors early, then transplant in spring when all danger of frost has passed. Spread seed on warm soil and cover with 1/4 inch fine soil. Seeds will germinate in 7-14 days. Once plants are two to three inches tall, thin to space plants 8-10 inches apart. 90 days to maturity.