• Chive plants with purple flowers thriving in a garden environment
  • A bundle of fresh chives placed on a wooden tabletop
  • Lush chives with delicate purple flowers growing in a field
  • Close-up of chive plants with purple blooms in an outdoor garden
  • Chopped chives spread on a rustic wooden surface
  • Fresh chives with purple blossoms in a garden setting
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Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden

Chives

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Chives cipollina is a well-liked and simple-to-cultivate herb that has slender leaves and gorgeous, globose pink blooms. Chives are also known as garlic chives. Chives have a mild onion taste, which makes them an excellent choice for seasoning salads and dips because of their ability to subtly impart onion flavour. They are also rich in necessary vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin C and iron, making them ingredients that are not only delicious but also nutritious.

Chives can be used to add flavour to a wide variety of foods, from salad to casserole, potatoes to soup.

Continue to cut the leaves and use them so that there will be additional growth.

Quantity of Seeds 200 Seeds
Type Edible Herb
Genus Chives cipollini
Sow Seeds

Sow thinly February-June, 0.5 cm deep, into pots/trays and cover lightly with fine compost.  Germination takes 10–14 days.  Keep moderately moist.  There is no need to thin out unless the pot is very crowded.  
Plant Out Can be sown directly after all risk of frost has passed or throughout the year indoors on a sunny windowsill
Flowers June-September
Height & Spread 40cm high x 30cm spread

 
    Chive plants with purple flowers thriving in a garden environment
    A bundle of fresh chives placed on a wooden tabletop
    Lush chives with delicate purple flowers growing in a field
    Close-up of chive plants with purple blooms in an outdoor garden
    Chopped chives spread on a rustic wooden surface
    Fresh chives with purple blossoms in a garden setting