Description
Hollow, thin chives leaves have a delicate flavoring similar to mild-tasting onions.
Chives are an easy and convenient way to add flavor and nutrition to your dishes.
Chives seed germination time can take anywhere from 15 to 21 days. Chopped chives are wonderfully delicious in salads and for flavoring soups and omelets. They are sometimes used for edging flowerbeds due to their attractive, clover-like blossoms.
- Characteristics: Attracts pollinators
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 400 mg
- Approximate Seed Count: 95 - 105
- Flavor: Very mild onion-like flavor.
- Preparation Ideas: Perfect for adding a subtle onion taste to salads, soups, or omelettes.
- Plant Type: Herb
- Plant Lifecycle: Perennial
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Resistance: Deer
- Tolerance: Drought
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Start seed indoors in a sunny location 6 weeks before planting outdoors. Or, sow seed in the garden in a sunny location in rich, well-drained soil. Performs best in rows 12 inches apart. Thin or transplant plants to 6 inches apart when they are 2 inches tall. Leaves can be harvested 4 months after sowing: then cut often.
- Planting Depth: 0.25"
- Seed Spacing: 6"
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Description
Hollow, thin chives leaves have a delicate flavoring similar to mild-tasting onions.
Chives are an easy and convenient way to add flavor and nutrition to your dishes.
Chives seed germination time can take anywhere from 15 to 21 days. Chopped chives are wonderfully delicious in salads and for flavoring soups and omelets. They are sometimes used for edging flowerbeds due to their attractive, clover-like blossoms.
- Characteristics: Attracts pollinators
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 400 mg
- Approximate Seed Count: 95 - 105
- Flavor: Very mild onion-like flavor.
- Preparation Ideas: Perfect for adding a subtle onion taste to salads, soups, or omelettes.
- Plant Type: Herb
- Plant Lifecycle: Perennial
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Resistance: Deer
- Tolerance: Drought
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Start seed indoors in a sunny location 6 weeks before planting outdoors. Or, sow seed in the garden in a sunny location in rich, well-drained soil. Performs best in rows 12 inches apart. Thin or transplant plants to 6 inches apart when they are 2 inches tall. Leaves can be harvested 4 months after sowing: then cut often.
- Planting Depth: 0.25"
- Seed Spacing: 6"
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.