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Chives grow best in full sun and need at least six to eight hours of sunlight daily in order to thrive. Indoors, place them in a south-facing window for maximum sunlight exposure. Soil
Chives starting to look old can be cut back to about 2–5 cm. When harvesting, the needed number of stalks should be cut to the base. [31] During the growing season, the plant continually regrows leaves, allowing for a continuous harvest. [31] Chives are susceptible to damage by leek moth larvae, which bore into the leaves or bulbs of the ...
Chives are easy to grow so you probably won’t need to do much of anything once they’re established in your garden. They do best in a full-sun site with loamy soil but can grow in part shade.
Allium tuberosum is a rhizomatous, clump-forming perennial plant growing from a small, elongated bulb (about 10 mm; 13 ⁄ 32 inch, across) that is tough and fibrous. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Unlike either onion or garlic , it has strap-shaped leaves with triangular bases, about 1.5 to 8 mm ( 1 ⁄ 16 to 5 ⁄ 16 in) wide. [ 9 ]
Tobacco Root - (species of Velerian, not actual tobacco) Wapato - several species of Sagittaria; Wild Onion - several native species, such as Ramps and Meadow Garlic; Wild Sweet Potato - roots of several native species of Ipomoea, also known as Morning Glory; Yampah - several plants in the Perideridia family. Leaves also used as spice.
Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, [4] German garlic, or broadleaf chives, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).
When selecting garlic for planting, it is important to pick large bulbs from which to separate cloves. Large cloves, along with proper spacing in the planting bed, will also increase bulb size. Garlic plants prefer to grow in a soil with a high organic material content, but are capable of growing in a wide range of soil conditions and pH levels ...
Allium ramosum, called fragrant-flowered garlic [4] or Chinese chives [5] [6] is a northern Asian species of wild onion native to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang).