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Chives
Garlic Chives
Allium tuberosum
Garlic chives (Chinese chives) have flat, solid leaves with a mild garlic rather than onion flavour, and produce attractive white, star-shaped flowers. They are slightly larger than common chives and tolerate heat better. Used extensively in Asian cooking and increasingly popular in Western herb gardens.
Key facts
- Growth habit
- upright
- Produce type
- leaf
- Support
- none
- Sun
- full sun
- Days to harvest
- 70–220 days
- Watering
- low
- Frost sensitivity
- low
For all chives issues and threats, see the Chives page.