Garlic chives are essentially garlic flavored chives. It is nice to get a fresh garlic flavor early in the season. The leaves are flatter in apperance and the flowers are white. In fact there is the wya most people can tell them apart from regular chives. The flowers form in late summer which is also an easy way to tell them apart from their cousins. Perennial in zones 4-8.
Characteristics:
Instructions - Sow seeds indoors ¼" deep. Transplant outdoors as soon as soil can be worked in spring. Chives are also easy to direct seed. Established plants can easily be divided in both spring and fall. Remove spent blossoms regularly to prolong blooming.
Sow 4-6 weeks before the last frost
Germination 7-14 days
Plant 4-8" apart
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